ppl. a. [f. BID + -EN1.] Invited; commanded, ordered.
1614. King, Vitis Palat., 12. And Christ must bee a bidden guest.
1637. Milton, Lycidas, 118. The worthy bidden guest.
1718. Pope, Iliad, V. 890. On the bright axle turns the bidden wheel of sounding brass.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev. (1872), III. I. i. 2. Where Force is not yet distinguished into Bidden and Forbidden.
1875. Lanc. Gloss. (E. D. S.), 38. Bidden-wedding (N. Lanc.), a wedding to which it was formerly the custom in North Lanc. to invite the whole country-side.
