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Bestowed

Bestow \Be*stow"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bestowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bestowing.] [OE. bestowen; pref. be- + stow a place. See Stow.]

  1. To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put. ``He bestowed it in a pouch.''
    --Sir W. Scott.

    See that the women are bestowed in safety.
    --Byron.

  2. To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some occupation.

  3. To expend, as money. [Obs.]

  4. To give or confer; to impart; -- with on or upon.

    Empire is on us bestowed.
    --Cowper.

    Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor.
    --1 Cor. xiii. 3.

  5. To give in marriage.

    I could have bestowed her upon a fine gentleman.
    --Tatler.

  6. To demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun. [Obs.]

    How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night in his true colors, and not ourselves be seen ?
    --Shak.

    Syn: To give; grant; present; confer; accord.

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bestowed

vb. (en-past of: bestow)

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bestowed

adj. given formally or officially [syn: conferred, presented]

Usage examples of "bestowed".

Yet even in the age of the Antonines, when the freedom of the city had been bestowed on the greater number of their subjects, it was still accompanied with very solid advantages.

The intemperate thirst of strong liquors often urged the barbarians to invade the provinces on which art or nature had bestowed those much envied presents.

Dodwell, the whole host of martyrs, which owe their existence to the prodigal invention of later days, had he but bestowed fair room, and dwelt with his ordinary energy on the sufferings of the genuine witnesses to the truth of Christianity, the Polycarps, or the martyrs of Vienne.

The appellation of Roumelia, which is still bestowed by the Turks on the extensive countries of Thrace, Macedonia, and Greece, preserves the memory of their ancient state under the Roman empire.

Notwithstanding the repairs bestowed on that ancient edifice by a king of Cappadocia, it was again fallen to decay.

It may not be unpleasing to collect a few scattered instances relative to that subject without forgetting, however, that from the vanity of nations and the poverty of language, the vague appellation of city has been indifferently bestowed on Rome and upon Laurentum.

Prince of the Senate, which had always been bestowed, by the censors, on the citizen the most eminent for his honors and services.

In his Meditations, he thanks the gods, who had bestowed on him a wife so faithful, so gentle, and of such a wonderful simplicity of manners.

Severus considered the Roman empire as his property, and had no sooner secured the possession, than he bestowed his care on the cultivation and improvement of so valuable an acquisition.

She possessed, even in advanced age, the attractions of beauty, and united to a lively imagination a firmness of mind, and strength of judgment, seldom bestowed on her sex.

It became the honorable appellation of the sons of Severus, was bestowed on young Diadumenianus, and at length prostituted to the infamy of the high priest of Emesa.

In the cool shade of retirement, we may easily devise imaginary forms of government, in which the sceptre shall be constantly bestowed on the most worthy, by the free and incorrupt suffrage of the whole community.

The Germans abandoned their immense forests to the exercise of hunting, employed in pasturage the most considerable part of their lands, bestowed on the small remainder a rude and careless cultivation, and then accused the scantiness and sterility of a country that refused to maintain the multitude of its inhabitants.

The honorable gifts, bestowed by the chief on his brave companions, have been supposed, by an ingenious writer, to contain the first rudiments of the fiefs, distributed after the conquest of the Roman provinces, by the barbarian lords among their vassals, with a similar duty of homage and military service.

The same communities, uniting in a plan of defence or invasion, bestowed a new title on their new confederacy.