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verb
Bestead  v. t.  (past & past part. bestead or bested, also obs. bestad)  
1.
To put in a certain situation or condition; to circumstance; to place. (Only in p. p.) "They shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry:... and curse their king and their God." "Many far worse bestead than ourselves."
2.
To put in peril; to beset. Note: (Only in p. p.)
3.
To serve; to assist; to profit; to avail.





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"Bestead" Quotes from Famous Books



... the way in the Hyer family to make the best of things; they had always possessed this virtue to such an extent, that they suffered from it as from a vice. There was hardly to be found in all Southern Tennessee a more contented, shiftless, ill-bestead family than theirs. But there was no grumbling. Whatever went wrong, whatever was lacking, it was "jest like aour luck," they said, and did nothing, or next to nothing, about it. Good-natured, affectionate, humorous people; after all, they ...
— Ramona • Helen Hunt Jackson
... Lucifer, and, heralding the light, Bring in the genial day, while I make moan Fooled by vain passion for a faithless bride, For Nysa, and with this my dying breath Call on the gods, though little it bestead- The gods who heard her vows ...
— The Bucolics and Eclogues • Virgil
... me, Thou vain Philosophy! Little hast thou bestead, Save to perplex the head, And leave the spirit dead. Unto thy broken cisterns wherefore go. While from the secret treasure-depths below, Fed by the skyey shower, And clouds that sink and rest on hill-tops high, Wisdom at once, and Power, Are welling, bubbling ...
— The World's Best Poetry Volume IV. • Bliss Carman


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