betide
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /bəˈtaɪd/
betide (betides, present participle betiding; past and past participle betid)
- (transitive) To happen unto; to befall.
- circa 1595 William Shakespeare, Richard II (play), Act III scene ii:
- More health and happiness betide my liege / Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him!
- circa 1595 William Shakespeare, Richard II (play), Act III scene ii:
- (intransitive) To happen; to take place; to bechance or befall.
- circa 1610-11 William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii:
- […] Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort.
- The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd
- The very virtue of compassion in thee,
- I have with such provision in mine art
- So safely order'd that there is no soul,
- No, not so much perdition as an hair
- Betid to any creature in the vessel
- Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. […]
- circa 1610-11 William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii:
- (to happen) come to pass, occur, transpire; See also Thesaurus:happen
- (to happen to)
- Russian: случи́ться
- Russian: случа́ться
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