BEDE

Bede

Bede, also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede, was an English monk at the monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow, Northeast England, both of which were located 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".

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bede

Noun

  1. prayer, request, supplication
  2. order, command
  3. rosary

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A kind of pickaxe.

Verb

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


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