Obs. rare–1. [? f. ME. beden, beoden, OE. béodan to command (cf. Ger. gebiet): if not a sense of prec.] Command, bidding.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 7. Ȝef we haldeþ his beode.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron., 335. Þei bed þe same bede.
c. 1430. Hymns Virg. (1867), 49. Þoruȝ pride ȝe offendid my fadris bede.
