Crossword-Solution: BIDA 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Bida, the painter (whose book is very scarce), I presume even the countrywomen of Aucassin find it difficult.

Bida, he says, in the dreadful year of 1870-71, when he translated "Aucassin." This, too, it has done for me in days not delightful.

The difference between the elegant (or perhaps rather the handsome) drawings of Bida, an artist of the utmost distinction, and that of the illustrators of the present day who are comparable with him--their name is not legion--is a special attestation of the influence of the realistic ideal in a sphere wherein, if anywhere, one may say, realism reigns legitimately, but wherein also the conventional is especially to be expected.

The technical term for anything new is "bida't," and of it, it is said: "Bida't is the changer of Sunnat." In other words, if men seek after things new, if fresh forms of thought arise, and the changing condition of society demands new modes of expression for the Faith, or new laws to regulate the community, if in internals or externals, any new thing (bida't) is introduced, it is to be shunned.

For some reason or other--tradition says to ask for some bread and water for his boy--he stopped at the Franciscan monastery of La R·bida, about half a league from Palos.