bede

Meanings

1. Prayer, request, supplication
2. Rosary.

1. pray, offer, proffer
2. request, demand, order, command, forbid
3. proclaim, declare
4. present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort

1. An English monk, historian and theologian from Northumbria who lived from c. 673 to 753, commonly known as the Venerable Bede.

Etymology

From Middle English bēde (“prayer, request, supplication, order, command, rosary, bead”), from Old English ġebed (“prayer, petition, supplication, religious service, an ordinance”), from Proto-West Germanic *bed, from Proto-Germanic *bedą (“prayer, entreaty”). Cognate with Dutch gebed and bede, German Gebet.