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# bade

«bade» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **told; ordered; asked** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

told; ordered; asked

### part of speech

verb, past tense of bid

### meaning for a pupil

Ordered or asked someone to do something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bade/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Old form of the past tense; today we say told or asked. The sentences use the same meaning.

### examples

- And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house. (Torah GEN.43.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bade/#x1)
- But the Fairy bade her take courage. (The Red Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bade/#x2)
- And Jacob said unto his father: 'I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me. (Torah GEN.27.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bade/#x3)

### primary record

bade

### tests

manual 6; corpora 498 (Torah 3, tales 495, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 56.4 (Torah alone 7.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1417/)
- [And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him; he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.274/)
- [And she went down unto the threshing-floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/RUT.56/)
- [Then Esther bade them return answer unto Mordecai:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.77/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bade» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bade/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.