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BID, pret. bid, or bade pp. bid, bidden. L. peto, to drive at, to attack, to ask, to desire, to beseech, anciently beto impetus. Applied to the voice, it denotes utterance, a driving of sounds, which is applied to asking, prayer, and command. Class Bd.

1. To ask to request to invite.

Go ye into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. Math 22

This sense is antiquated, but we have the same word from the Latin, in invite, in and bid.

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Entry for 'Bid'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​b/bid.html.
 
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