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verb

Bestow v. t. (past & past part. bestowed; pres. part. bestowing)

To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put. "He bestowed it in a pouch." "See that the women are bestowed in safety."

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

To expend, as money. (Obs.)

To give or confer; to impart; with on or upon. "Empire is on us bestowed." "Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor."

To give in marriage. "I could have bestowed her upon a fine gentleman."

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?"

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

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... when I was weakly in the spring," said Philip, laughing. At any other time this speech would have drawn down a serious remonstrance for its impiety, but at the present moment Sam was too much engaged with the treachery of Spikeman to bestow upon it any attention. ...

— The Knight of the Golden Melice - A Historical Romance • John Turvill Adams

... half-century have yielded rich harvests of new truths, and are models of exact and refined research. As such they deserve, and have received, all the honours which those who are the best judges of their purely scientific merits are able to bestow. But it so happens that these subtle and patient searchings out of the ways of the infinitely little—of the swarming life where the creature that measures one-thousandth part of an inch is a giant—have also yielded results of supreme practical importance. The path of M. Pasteur's investigations ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley

... Abbey, the 3d of August following, near the ashes of Chaucer and Spenser. King Charles II. was pleased to bestow upon him the best character, when, upon the news of his death, his Majesty declared, that Mr. Cowley had not left a better man behind him in England. A monument was erected to his memory in May 1675, by George, duke of Buckingham, with a Latin inscription, written by Dr. Sprat, afterwards ...

— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume II • Theophilus Cibber

... by his rejoinder to nod her head and sigh. "I felt sure;" she observed; "that you'd go again and do these things! Yet you shouldn't take my belongings and bestow them on that low-bred sort of people. Can it be that no consideration finds a place in ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin

... 2. Spanish. Bestow great attention on this, and endeavor to acquire an accurate knowledge of it. Our future connections with Spain and Spanish America, will render that language a valuable acquisition. The ancient history of a great ...

— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson

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