betide

1. (transitive) Often used in a prediction (chiefly in woe betide) or a wish: to happen to (someone or something); to befall.Examples: "Why wayle we then? why weary we the Gods with playnts, / As if ſome euill were to her betight? / She raignes a goddeſſe now emong the ſaintes, / That whilome was the ſaynt of ſhepheardes light: / And is enſtalled nowe in heauens hight."; "Why, how now, countrymen! Why flock you thus to me in multitudes? What accident's betided to the Jews?"; "More health and happines betide my liege, / Then can my care tunde tongue deliuer him."datedliterarytransitive

2. (intransitive) Chiefly in the third person: to happen; to take place; to bechance, to befall.Examples: "If he were dead what would betide of me."; "[W]ipe thou thine eyes, haue comfort, / The direfull ſpectacle of the wracke which touch'd / The very vertue of compaſſion in thee: / I haue with ſuch prouiſion in mine Art / So ſafely ordered, that there is no ſoule / No not ſo much perdition as an hayre / Betid to any creature in the veſſel / Which thou heardſt cry, which thou ſaw'ſt ſinke: […]"; "The death of my ſon betiding while my ſoul was under this anxiety, I thought of nothing but reſigning my dominions, and retiring for ever from the ſight of mankind."Synonyms: betime, come to pass, occur, tide, transpire, bechance, befall, belimpdatedintransitiveliterary