different between bested vs bestead

English

Etymology 1

best +? -ed

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?st??d, IPA^(key): /?b?st?d/

Verb

bested

1. simple past tense and past participle of best

Etymology 2

See bestead

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?-st?d?, IPA^(key): /b??st?d/

Verb

bested

1. Alternative form of bestead

Anagrams

• bedset

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From be- +? stead (“to support, help”).

Alternative forms

• bested

Verb

bestead (third-person singular simple present besteads, present participle besteading, simple past besteaded, past participle bestead)

1. (transitive) To help, assist.
   • And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
2. (transitive) To profit; benefit; serve; avail.
   • 1859, Southern literary messenger: Volume 28:

     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.

Synonyms

• (help; assist): aid, lend a hand; See also Thesaurus:help
• (profit; benefit; serve; avail): bestand; See also Thesaurus:serve

Derived terms

• besteading

Etymology 2

From be- +? stead (“place”).

Verb

bestead (third-person singular simple present besteads, present participle besteading, simple past and past participle besteaded)

1. (transitive) To take the place of; replace.

Etymology 3

From be- + Old Norse staddr (“placed”), later assimilated to Etymology 1, above.

Alternative forms

• bested

Adjective

bestead (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Placed (in a given situation); beset.
2. (obsolete) Disposed mentally; affected.

   sorrowfully bested

3. (obsolete) Provided; furnished.

Anagrams

• beasted, bed teas, bed-teas, debates