All 6 Uses
bestow
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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- —Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed?†
p. 115.3 *bestowed = gave
- Her father and myself, lawful espials,
Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen,
We may of their encounter frankly judge
And gather by him, as he is behaved,
If 't be th' affliction of his love or no
That thus he suffers for.†p. 125.6bestow = give - —Gracious, so please you,
We will bestow ourselves.†p. 127.1 - I will bestow him and will answer well
The death I gave him.†p. 181.8 - Bestow this place on us a little while.†
p. 189.2
- Where the dead body is bestowed, my lord,
We cannot get from him.†p. 195.7bestowed = gave
Definitions:
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(1)
(bestow) to give -- typically to present as an honor or give as a gift
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, in classic literature, bestow can also mean to give more generally or to put, place, or store (to stow) something somewhere.