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*1 : to put to use : [[apply]] <bestowed his spare [[time]] on [[study]]> | *1 : to put to use : [[apply]] <bestowed his spare [[time]] on [[study]]> |
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Etymology
Middle English, from be- + stowe place
- stow - a place on the surface of the earth or in space; occasionally, a place in a book or writing. The word survives in the names of many towns and villages, sometimes separately, as Stow in Cambridgeshire, Stowe in Buckinghamshire, Stow-on-the-Wold
- Date: 14th century