bestead

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To help, assist. transitive
    — She indifferently makes profit of all; even errours and dreames, doe profitably beſteade-her, as a loyall matter, to bring-vs vnto ſafetie and contentment.
  2. To take the place of; replace. transitive
  3. To profit; benefit; serve; avail. transitive
    — With forty sous which remained, he went to a low gambling house, where fortune, or something surer to the skilful practitioner, so well besteaded him that he was able to clothe himself decently preparatory to entering Frascati's, the fashionable hell of Paris—a den of abomination early suppressed on the accession of Louis Philippe to the French throne.
形容词 adj.
  1. Placed (in a given situation); beset. archaic,not-comparable
    — "I was indeed hard bestead, sir," burst in Oliver.
  2. Disposed mentally; affected. not-comparable,obsolete
    — sorrowfully bestead
  3. Provided; furnished. not-comparable,obsolete

词形变化

besteads present,singular,third-person besteading participle,present besteaded past bestead participle,past bested alternative besteads present,singular,third-person besteading participle,present besteaded participle,past besteaded past bested alternative

词汇关系

近义词
lend a hand
衍生词
besteading

词源

词源 1
From be- + stead (“to support, help”).
词源 2
From Middle English bisteden; equivalent to be- + stead (“place”).
词源 3
From Middle English bistad; equivalent to be- + Old Norse staddr (“placed”), later assimilated to Etymology 1, above.
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