All 3 Uses of
bestow
in
As You Like It
- Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.†
Scene 1.2 *bestowed = gave
- You say, if I bring in your Rosalind, You will bestow her on Orlando here?†
Scene 5.4bestow = give
- If that an eye may profit by a tongue, Then should I know you by description; Such garments, and such years: 'The boy is fair, Of female favour, and bestows himself Like a ripe sister: the woman low, And browner than her brother.'†
Scene 4.3
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) 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.