bestow
To apply or make use of (someone or something); to employ, to use.
(specifically, obsolete) To apply (money) for some purpose; to expend, to spend.
O if I had had time to have made new liveries: I woulde have bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you, but tis no matter, this poore shew doth better, this doth inferre the zeale I had to see him.
And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soule lutseth after, for oxen, or for sheepe, or for wine, or for strong drinke, or for whatsoever thy soule desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoyce, thou and thine houshold.
To impart (something) gratuitously; to present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honor; to confer, to give, to accord.
He stopped at the outer door to bestow the greetings of the season on the clerk, who, cold as he was, was warmer than Scrooge; for he returned them cordially.
Do they [parents] not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?
Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun which bestowed such joy upon me.
Lord, I have heard that thou art a merciful God, and hast ordained that thy Son Jesus Christ should be the Saviour of the World, and moreover, that thou art willing to bestow him upon such a poor sinner as I am, […]
[H]e [Moses] bestoweth on the story of Abraham fourteene chapters, beginning with his birth in the eleventh, and ending with his death in the five and twentieth; and this time endured but 175. yeares.
Harke yee Lords, you see I have given her Phisicke, / And you must needs bestow her Funerall, […]
(archaic) To place or put (someone or something) somewhere or in a certain situation; to dispose of.
The divell take the one partie, / And his dam the other, / And theyle be both bestowed. / I have endured more for their sakes, / Then man is able to endure.
With Bread the glitt’ring Canisters they load, / Which round the Board Menætius’s Son bestow’d; […]
The white domestic pigeon pairs secure, / Nay, does mere duty by bestowing egg / In authorized compartment, warm and safe, / Boarding about, and gilded spire above, / Hoisted on pole, to dogs' and cats' despair!
(archaic) To deposit (something) for safekeeping; to lay up (something) in store; to stow.
Now as I am a Christian answer me, / In what safe place you have bestow'd my monie; / Or I shall breake that merrie sconce of yours / That stands on tricks, when I am undispos'd: / Where is the thousand Markes thou hadst of me?
Of the Three Rings that the Elves had preserved unsullied no open word was ever spoken among the Wise, and few even of the Eldar knew where they were bestowed.
(archaic) To provide (someone or oneself) with accommodation; to find quarters for (someone or oneself); to lodge, to quarter.
(obsolete) To behave or conduct (oneself); to acquit.
(obsolete) To give (someone or oneself) in marriage.
(obsolete, rare) An act of presenting a thing to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honor; a bestowal.
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