| 1. congratulate; offer a price; plead; summon, call. tender; offer, proposal. bidbid (b&ibreve;d), v. t. [imp. bade (băd), bid, (obs.) bad; p. p. bidden , bid; p. pr. & vb. n. bidding.] [oe. bidden, prop to ask, beg, as. biddan; akin to os. biddian, icel. bi?ja, ohg. bittan, g. bitten, to pray, ask, request, and e. bead, also perh. to gr. teiqein to persuade, l. fidere to trust, e. faith, and bide. but this word was early confused with oe. beden, beoden, as. be?dan, to offer, command; akin to icel. bjō?a, goth. biudan (in comp.), ohg. biotan to command, bid, g. bieten, d. bieden, to offer, also to gr. pynqa`nesqai to learn by inquiry, skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present oslav. budēti to be awake, e. bode, v. the word now has the form of oe. bidden to ask, but the meaning of oe. beden to command, except in to bid beads. ?30.] |
