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noun

Bidding n.

1.

Command; order; a proclamation or notifying. "Do thou thy master's bidding."

2.

The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction.

verb

Bid v. t. (past bade; past part. bidden, bid; pres. part. bidding)

1.

To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically: To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).

2.

To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc. "Neither bid him God speed." "He bids defiance to the gaping crowd."

3.

To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. (Mostly obs.) "Our banns thrice bid!"

4.

To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command. "That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow." "Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee." "I was bid to pick up shells."

5.

To invite; to call in; to request to come. "As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage."

To bid beads, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. (Obs.)

To bid defiance to, to defy openly; to brave.

To bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely.

Synonyms: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command; direct; charge; enjoin.

Bid v. i. (past bade; past part. bidden, bid; pres. part. bidding)

1.

To pray. (Obs.)

2.

To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.

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"Bidding" Quotes from Famous Books

... time of their remaining together. Short, however, was that time. The carriage was soon announced to be ready; and Catherine, instantly rising, a long and affectionate embrace supplied the place of language in bidding each other adieu; and, as they entered the hall, unable to leave the house without some mention of one whose name had not yet been spoken by either, she paused a moment, and with quivering lips just made it intelligible that she left "her kind remembrance for her absent friend." But ...

— Persuasion • Jane Austen

... lies between the two colonies and New South Wales claims it to the Victorian bank. When it overflowed disastrously a couple of years ago, an irate farmer on the Victorian side is said to have written to Sir Henry Parkes, bidding him come and pump the confounded river off his land, and threatening to agitate for a duty (by the gallon) on imported New South Wales water. The dispute is nothing less than childish, but I have the personal assurance of the leading statesman of New South Wales that he is perfectly satisfied ...

— Recollections • David Christie Murray

... on her way. But when pale Death, all featureless and grim, Lifted his bony hand, and beckoning Held out his cypress-wreath, she followed him, And Love was left forlorn and wondering, That she who for his bidding would not stay, At Death's first whisper rose and ...

— Books and Persons - Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 • Arnold Bennett

... Then came this bidding to dinner. Lady Blantock wrote the invitation, of course, but it was natural to suppose that she did it to please her daughter. It happened to be my birthday, and I fancied that Helen had kept the date in mind. Besides, the ...

— The Princess Passes • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson

... time, almost forever, that only he had not quite recognised it, yes, that he himself had almost reached the same state. He felt, that he was now seeing old Vasudeva as the people see the gods, and that this could not last; in his heart, he started bidding his farewell to Vasudeva. Thorough all this, ...

— Siddhartha • Herman Hesse

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