17 April 2018

abed

[uh-bed]

adverb

1. in bed :
to stay abed late on Sundays.
2. confined to bed.

Origin of abed

Middle English

1200-1300 Middle English word dating back to 1200-1300; See origin at a-1, bed

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Examples from the Web for abed

Contemporary Examples

From behind the steering wheel, abed introduced me as a journalist.
The Fourth War: My Lunch with a Jihadi
Elliot Ackerman
January 21, 2014

Abu Hassar began to slowly nod and his gaze moved from abed to me.
The Fourth War: My Lunch with a Jihadi
Elliot Ackerman
January 21, 2014

abed filled his mouth with a piece of the baklava, I needed to get our conversation going.
The Fourth War: My Lunch with a Jihadi
Elliot Ackerman
January 21, 2014

Anagram

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Today’s quote

If you are going to get anywhere in life, you have to read a lot of books.

– Roald Dahl

On this day

17 April 1521 – Martin Luther appears before the Diet of Worms to be questioned by representatives of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, over the alleged possession of heretical books. (Worms is a town in Germany and Diet is a formal assembly).

17 April 1961 – the U.S. government sponsor 1,500 Cuban exiles to invade the Bay of Pigs, Cuba in an effort to overthrow the socialist government of Fidel Castro. The attacks fails, resulting in the deaths or capture of all of the exiles.

17 April 1967 – the final episode of the sit-com, Gilligan’s Island, airs in the United States. The first episode aired on 26 September 1964. It told the story of four men and three women on board the S.S. Minnow are ship-wrecked on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean following a storm. Stranded are the ship’s mate, Gilligan and the ship’s skipper, a millionaire and his wife (the Howells), a sultry movie star (Ginger Grant), a professor and farm girl (Mary-Anne Summers).

17 April 1969 – Sirhan Sirhan convicted of 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He was originally given a death sentence, which was later commuted to life imprisonment. Robert Kennedy was the brother of assassinated President John F. Kennedy.

17 April 2010 – A Manhattan library reveals that first President George Washington failed to return two library books, accruing overdue fees of $300,000. The library said they weren’t pursuing payment of the fees.