verb
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To issue a command; to tell.
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He bade me come in.
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To invite; to summon.
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She was bidden to the wedding.
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To utter a greeting or salutation.
verb
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To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
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Have you ever bid in an auction?
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To offer as a price.
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She bid £2000 for the Persian carpet.
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To make an attempt.
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He was bidding for the chance to coach his team to victory once again.
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To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
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To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
noun
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That which one is bidden to do; a command.
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The act of placing a bid.
Examples of bidding in a Sentence
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
He gave and lent enormous sums to successive popes, and at the bidding of Clement XI.
The imperious terms in which he was summoned to come down were punished by fire from heaven,which descended at the bidding of Elijah and consumed the whole land.
After saying how Map translated the romance from the Latin at the bidding of King Henry, the usual statement, the scribe adds "qui riche loier l'en donor."
After bidding their family farewell they were carried to the sepulchral cave, nothing but a bowl of milk being left them.
The singing of this is followed by bidding prayers for the peace and unity of the church, for the pope, the clergy, all ranks and conditions of men, the sovereign, for catechumens, the sick and afflicted, heretics and schismatics, Jews and heathen.
Wace and Benoit de Sainte-More compiled their histories at his bidding, and it was in his reign that Marie de France composed her poems. An event with which he was closely connected, viz.
These were the men who, a little later, at the bidding of their "benefactors," dissolved one inconvenient diet after another; for it is a significant fact that during the reigns of the two Augustuses every diet was dissolved in this way by the hirelings of some great lord or, still worse, of some foreign potentate.
But his friendship with Nero was brought to an abrupt close in 58, when Otho refused to divorce his beautiful wife Poppea Sabina at the bidding of Nero, who at once appointed him governor of the remote province of Lusitania.
If the weak nation will not willingly do the bidding of the strong one, then it is made to.
In the Church of England the history of the Passion from the gospel according to John is also read; the collects for the day are based upon the bidding prayers which are found in the Ordo Romanus.
Before bidding, you should investigate the asking price of the ring for sale.
She moved off to examine the other windows as Dean knelt to do her bidding.
There is no way on God's green earth I am going to influence that lovely woman to do your bidding!
The questions tumbled out of her mouth without bidding.
In my nineteenth year I was admitted to the diaconate, in my thirtieth to the priesthood, both by the hands of the most reverend Bishop John (of Hexham), and at the bidding of Abbot Ceolfrid.
Check your local Craigslist for good deals on used materials, or try bidding on Abeka kits on eBay.
The instructions, rules, bidding and scoring for each of the three following games are available on Card Games.
You can host a silent auction, a live auction, or an event that includes both silent and live bidding opportunities.
This will help avoid a bidding war, especially if you are able to monitor the auction's final moments.
Finally, beware of diamond deals that sound a bit too good to be true and if you're buying a diamond from an online auction site, do some through research on the seller before bidding.
For example, a novice freelance writer who gets the majority of her assignments through bidding Web sites may also be busy sending out query letters to try to break into higher-paying magazine markets.
Bidding sites like Rent a Coder and Guru can also be good sources of job listings for writers, although the bidding process often drives down freelance writing fees considerably.
Temporary Writing Projects - One of the easiest methods of getting published online is by bidding on, and successfully completing, paid writing projects.
Depending upon what type of writing you are interested in, you may also want to check out bidding sites like Rent a Coder and Guru.
Bidding sites like Rent a Coder and Guru also have a number of job opportunities for Web content writing, although the pay can be rather low.
There are several websites where clients can post requests for ghost writers who are interested in bidding on a project, such as Rent A Coder and ELance.com.
When bidding or buying online, look for clear and close up photos.
He wondered what Jonny threatened to do to the teens, if she failed to do his bidding.
He appears to have entered into consultation of a treasonable kind with Monmouth and others; he himself had, he declared, ten thousand brisk boys in London ready to rise at his bidding.
This body received the right of deciding by senatus consulta all questions not provided for by the constitution; the Corps Legislatif and Tribunate might also thenceforth be dissolved at its bidding.
Ibrahim Pasha was encamped near it when directed by his father, at the bidding of the powers, to stay his further advance.
The emperor, to whom Gerbert was well known, appointed a time for the two philosophers to argue before him; and Richer has left a long account of this dialectical tournament at Ravenna, which lasted out a whole day and was only terminated at the imperial bidding.
The evacuation of Egypt by Antiochus Epiphanes at the bidding of the Roman ambassadors suits the warning addressed to "Greece" (732-740) against overweening ambition and any attempt upon the Holy City, which is somewhat strangely enforced by the famous Greek oracle, "Let Camarina be, 'tis best unstirred."
On the 10th Jellachich issued a proclamation to the Croatian regiments in Italy, bidding them remain and fight for the emperor and the common Fatherland.
Messina laid waste the lands of Taormina, because Taormina would not obey the bidding of Messina.
Filled with his religious ideas and visions, he might well fancy he heard the angel bidding him recite what was said to him.
Thus in England in the 16th century it took the form of a direction to the people what to remember in "bidding their beads."
Bidding his companions retire to a distance, he takes up his position near the entrance to the mound - an arched opening whence issues a boiling stream.
But, for all this, Hermann exposes his own doubts when he tells that often, as he wa g preparing to write, he heard a voice bidding him lay down the pen, "for whatever you write will be an unmixed lie."
Some of his property was actually plundered, but restored at the bidding of Caesar, to whom Varro in gratitude immediately dedicated one of his most important writings.
She was astute enough to realize that Ed is just doing his mother's bidding.
Look at the countenance of the man while the different persons were bidding on his wife.
I set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
After much spirited bidding around the ring she was finally knocked down to RA & MD Butler of Thatcham.
In the latter case, the value of competitive bidding in an auction system has a bigger impact in reducing trading costs.
With proxy bidding you will pay the lowest possible price until someone else places a higher bid.
Terri's entry was a superb dragon overlooking a sphere which understandably encouraged fierce bidding, finally going for £ 110.
If you are a user of eBay then the chances are... the term " shill bidding " .
There are 27 big firms or consortia bidding for this job.