To order or command someone to do something, an archaic English verb.
From Old English 'beōdan' meaning 'to command' or 'to offer'. Related to modern English 'bode' and 'bid', from Proto-Germanic root.
Beode is practically extinct now, but it's a linguistic cousin of 'bid' and 'bode'—listening to how Old English verbs died out shows how language constantly refreshes itself.
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