1. bede - Noun
2. bede - Verb
To pray; also, to offer; to proffer.
A kind of pickax.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI am astonished that your friend Brand should be so absurd as to fancy that Gateshead means "the end of the road," instead of "the head of the goat;"and that Bede has confounded "gate, via, with goat, capra." Joseph Ritson
According to Bede, Æthelberht was sufficiently distrustful of the newcomers to insist on meeting them under the open sky, to prevent them from performing sorcery. Source: Internet
According to Bede, Hengist manipulated Vortigern into granting more land and allowing for more settlers to come in, paving the way for the Germanic settlement of Britain. Source: Internet
Accordingly, Bede reports that the hand and arm remained uncorrupted after Oswald's death. Source: Internet
According to Cuthbert, Bede fell ill, "with frequent attacks of breathlessness but almost without pain", before Easter. Source: Internet
AD 1494 illustration of a finger alphabet and counting system originally described by Bede in AD 710. The Greek alphabet is represented, with three additional letters making a total of 27, by the first three columns of numbers. Source: Internet