bestow

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To apply or make use of (someone or something); to employ, to use.

   “All the voide time, that is betwene the huores of woorke ſlepe and meat, that they be ſuffered to beſtowe, euerye man as he lyketh beſte hym ſelfe.”

2. fiil To apply (money) for some purpose; to expend, to spend.

   “O if I had had time to haue made nevv liueries: I vvoulde haue beſtovved the thouſand pound I borrovved of you, but tis no matter, this poore ſhevv doth better, this doth inferre the zeale I had to ſee him.”

3. fiil To impart (something) gratuitously; to present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; to confer, to give, to accord; to render.

   “I bestow upon you the name of Peter.”

4. fiil To place or put (someone or something) somewhere or in a certain situation; to dispose of.

   “The diuell take the one partie, / And his dam the other, / And theyle be both beſtovved. / I haue endured more for their ſakes, / Then man is able to endure.”

5. fiil To deposit (something) for safekeeping; to lay up (something) in store; to stow.

   “The londes of a certayne man brought forth frutes plenteouſly⸝ and he thought in hym ſilfe ſayinge: whatt ſhall I do⸝ becauſe I have noo roume where to beſtowe my frutes?”

6. fiil To provide (someone or oneself) with accommodation; to find quarters for (someone or oneself); to lodge, to quarter.

   “The ſixteene daye of May they were al beſtovved abourd in Spaniſh ſhippes furniſhed with victual, & other neceſſaries for that iourney.”

7. fiil To behave or conduct (oneself); to acquit.

   “Novv therefore vvould I haue thee to my Tutor / (For long agone I haue forgot to court, / Beſides the faſhion of the time is chang'd) / Hovv, and vvhich vvay I may beſtovv my ſelfe / To be regarded in her ſun-bright eye.”

8. fiil To give (someone or oneself) in marriage.

   “You ſay, if I bring in your Roſalinde, / You vvill beſtovv her on Orlando heere?”

9. isim An act of presenting a thing to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; a bestowal.

   “The Muſes bacely begge, or bibbe, or both, and muſt, for vvhy? / They finde as bad Beſtoe as is their Portage beggerly: / Yea novv by melancholie vvalkes and thred-bare coates vve geſſe / At Clyents and at Poetes: none vvorke more and profit leſſe, […]”