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STEAD, STED, n. [G. See Stay.]

1. Place; in general.

Fly this fearful stead.

[In this sense not used.]

2. Place or room which another had or might have, noting substitution, replacing or filling the place of another, as, David died and Solomon reigned in his sted.

God hath appointed me another seed in stead of Abel, whom Cain slew. Genesis 4.

3. The frame on which a bed is laid.

Sallow the feet, the borders and the sted.

[But we never use this word by itself in this sense. We always use bedstead.]

To stand in sted, to be of use or great advantage.

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

STEAD, STED, in names of places distant from a river or the sea, signifies place, as above; but in names of places situated on a river or harbor, it is from Sax. Stathe, border, bank, shore, Both words perhaps are from one root.



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STEAD, STED, n. [G. See Stay.]

1. Place; in general.

Fly this fearful stead.

[In this sense not used.]

2. Place or room which another had or might have, noting substitution, replacing or filling the place of another, as, David died and Solomon reigned in his sted.

God hath appointed me another seed in stead of Abel, whom Cain slew. Genesis 4.

3. The frame on which a bed is laid.

Sallow the feet, the borders and the sted.

[But we never use this word by itself in this sense. We always use bedstead.]

To stand in sted, to be of use or great advantage.

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

STEAD, STED, in names of places distant from a river or the sea, signifies place, as above; but in names of places situated on a river or harbor, it is from Sax. Stathe, border, bank, shore, Both words perhaps are from one root.


STEAD, v.t. [sted.]

  1. To help; to support; to assist; as, it nothing steads us. [Obs.] – Shak.
  2. To fill the place of another. [Obs.] – Shak.

Stead
  1. Place, or spot, in general.

    [Obs., except in composition.] Chaucer.

    Fly, therefore, fly this fearful stead anon. Spenser.

  2. To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.

    Perhaps my succour or advisement meet,
    Mote stead you much your purpose to subdue.     Spenser.

    It nothing steads us
    To chide him from our eaves.     Shak.

  3. Place or room which another had, has, or might have.

    "Stewards of your steads." Piers Plowman.

    In stead of bounds, he a pillar set. Chaucer.

  4. To fill place of.

    [Obs.] Shak.
  5. A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.

    [R.]

    The genial bed,
    Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead.     Dryden.

  6. A farmhouse and offices.

    [Prov. Eng. *** Scot.]

    &fist] The word is now commonly used as the last part of a compound; as, farmstead, homestead, readstead, etc.

    In stead of, in place of. See Instead. -- To stand in stead, or To do stead, to be of use or great advantage.

    The smallest act . . . shall stand us in great stead. Atterbury.

    Here thy sword can do thee little stead. Milton.

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Stead

STEAD, STED, noun [G. See Stay.]

1. Place; in general.

Fly this fearful stead

[In this sense not used.]

2. Place or room which another had or might have, noting substitution, replacing or filling the place of another, as, David died and Solomon reigned in his sted.

God hath appointed me another seed in stead of Abel, whom Cain slew. Genesis 4:1.

3. The frame on which a bed is laid.

Sallow the feet, the borders and the sted.

[But we never use this word by itself in this sense. We always use bedstead.]

To stand in sted, to be of use or great advantage.

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead

STEAD, STED, in names of places distant from a river or the sea, signifies place, as above; but in names of places situated on a river or harbor, it is from Sax. Stathe, border, bank, shore, Both words perhaps are from one root.

STEAD, verb transitive sted.

1. To help; to support; to assist; as, it nothing steads us.

2. To fill the place of another.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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SPIRITUAL, a.

1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as a spiritual substance or being. The soul of man is spiritual.

2. Mental; intellectual; as spiritual armor.

3. Not gross; refined from external things; not sensual; relative to mind only; as a spiritual and refined religion.

4. Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as the spiritual functions of the clergy; the lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.

5. Pertaining to spirit or to the affections; pure; holy.

Gods law is spiritual; it is a transcript of the divine nature, and extends its authority to the acts of the soul of man.

6. Pertaining to the renewed nature of man; as spiritual life.

7. Not fleshly; not material; as spiritual sacrifices. 1 Peter 2.

8. Pertaining to divine things; as spiritual songs. Ephesians 5.

Spiritual court, an ecclesiastical court; a court held by a bishop or other ecclesiastic.

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