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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Bede, Saint Bede, St. Bede, Baeda, Saint Baeda, St. Baeda, Beda, Saint Beda, St. Beda, the Venerable Bedenoun

    (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)

Wiktionary

  1. bedeverb

    pray, offer, proffer

    Sir, a bargan bede I you. uE000236768uE001 The Towneley Plays, 1500

  2. bedeverb

    request, demand, order, command, forbid

  3. bede

    proclaim, declare

    A turnement were best to bede. uE000236769uE001 Le Mort Arthur

  4. bede

    present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort

    They of londone...boden hem to ben lyht of herte. uE000236770uE001 Merlin, 1450

  5. Etymology: From bede, from gebed, from. Cognate with Dutch bede, German Gebet.

Wikipedia

  1. Bede

    Bede ( BEED; Old English: Bǣda [ˈbæːdɑ], Bēda [ˈbeːdɑ]; 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Latin: Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles (contemporarily Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey in Tyne and Wear, England). Born on lands belonging to the twin monastery of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow in present-day Tyne and Wear, Bede was sent to Monkwearmouth at the age of seven and later joined Abbot Ceolfrith at Jarrow. Both of them survived a plague that struck in 686 and killed a majority of the population there. While Bede spent most of his life in the monastery, he travelled to several abbeys and monasteries across the British Isles, even visiting the archbishop of York and King Ceolwulf of Northumbria. He was an author, teacher (Alcuin was a student of one of his pupils), and scholar, and his most famous work, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, gained him the title "The Father of English History." His ecumenical writings were extensive and included a number of Biblical commentaries and other theological works of exegetical erudition. Another important area of study for Bede was the academic discipline of computus, otherwise known to his contemporaries as the science of calculating calendar dates. One of the more important dates Bede tried to compute was Easter, an effort that was mired in controversy. He also helped popularize the practice of dating forward from the birth of Christ (Anno Domini—in the year of our Lord), a practice which eventually became commonplace in medieval Europe. Bede was one of the greatest teachers and writers of the Early Middle Ages and is considered by many historians to be the most important scholar of antiquity for the period between the death of Pope Gregory I in 604 and the coronation of Charlemagne in 800. In 1899, Pope Leo XIII declared him a Doctor of the Church. He is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation. Bede was moreover a skilled linguist and translator, and his work made the Latin and Greek writings of the early Church Fathers much more accessible to his fellow Anglo-Saxons, which contributed significantly to English Christianity. Bede's monastery had access to an impressive library which included works by Eusebius, Orosius, and many others.

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  1. bede

    "Bede" usually refers to Saint Bede, also recognized as Bede the Venerable, who was an English monk and scholar during the 8th-century, mostly renowned for his historical and theological works that have earned him the title of "the Father of English History". However, "bede" can also refer to a prayer or a petition in old English. The context in which the term is used will determine its specific meaning.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bedeverb

    to pray; also, to offer; to proffer

  2. Bedenoun

    a kind of pickax

Wikidata

  1. Bede

    Bede, also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede, was an English monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow, both in the Kingdom of Northumbria. He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum gained him the title "The Father of English History". In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation. Bede was moreover a skilled linguist and translator, and his work with the Latin and Greek writings of the early Church Fathers contributed significantly to English Christianity, making the writings much more accessible to his fellow Anglo-Saxons. Bede's monastery had access to a superb library which included works by Eusebius and Orosius among many others.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Bede

    or Beda, surnamed "The Venerable," an English monk and ecclesiastical historian, born at Monkwearmouth, in the abbey of which, together with that of Jarrow, he spent his life, devoted to quiet study and learning; his writings numerous, in the shape of commentaries, biographies, and philosophical treatises; his most important work, the "Ecclesiastical History" of England, written in Latin, and translated by Alfred the Great; completed a translation of John's Gospel the day he died. An old monk, it is said, wrote this epitaph over his grave, Hac sunt in fossâ Bedæ ... ossa, "In this pit are the bones ... of Beda," and then fell asleep; but when he awoke he found some invisible hand had inserted venerabilis in the blank which he had failed to fill up, whence Bede's epinomen it is alleged.

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  1. BEDE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bede is ranked #83226 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Bede surname appeared 226 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bede.

    80% or 181 total occurrences were White.
    8.8% or 20 total occurrences were Black.
    6.1% or 14 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    3.5% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Bède in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Bède in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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