All 4 Uses of
bestow
in
The Comedy of Errors
- Now, as I am a Christian, answer me, In what safe place you have bestow'd my money: Or I shall break that merry sconce of yours, That stands on tricks when I am undispos'd; Where is the thousand marks thou hadst of me?†
Scene 1.2
- Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts:
Scene 2.2 *bestows = gives as a gift
- —Get you home And fetch the chain: by this I know 'tis made: Bring it, I pray you, to the Porcupine; For there's the house; that chain will I bestow,—Be it for nothing but to spite my wife,—Upon mine hostess there: good sir, make haste: Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me.†
Scene 3.1bestow = give
- While I go to the goldsmith's house, go thou And buy a rope's end; that will I bestow Among my wife and her confederates, For locking me out of my doors by day.†
Scene 4.1
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.