2. Verb. (third-person singular of betide) ¹
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Definition of Betides
1. betide [v] - See also: betide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Betides
Literary usage of Betides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Life of King Henry the Second: And the Age in which He by George Lyttelton Lyttelton (1777)
"... prince's coronation, John of Oxford and the betides the mandate concerning
the young archdeacons of ..."
2. The Novelist's Magazine (1784)
"... which a parent feck, that are unknown to a!l the world betides. to give them,
betimes, ... betides ..."
3. The Mathematical Repository: Containing Analytical Solutions of Five Hundred by James Dodson (1748)
"20- u — • 36 But betides that, one or both the blots may be hit by the two dice
at length ; and the probability of that, is different, according to the ..."
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