Definition of "bid"

Shylock: [...] Why Jessica, I say!Launcelot: Why, Jessica!Shylock: Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call.Launcelot: Your worship was wont to tell me that I could do nothing without bidding.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene v]

Jessica: Call you? What is your will?Shylock: I am bid forth to supper, Jessica: / [...] But wherefore should I go? / I am not bid for love; they flatter me;

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene v]

In his cloak of words strode the ringmaster, / Bid me join the parade

1970, King Crimson (lyrics and music), “Cirkus (including "Entry of the Chameleons")”, in Lizard

Portia: If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good heart as I / can bid the other four farewell, I should be glad of his / approach; […]

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene iii]

The last train—a three-coach A.E.C. unit—from Belfast to Crumlin and back, was bade farewell with fog signals as it carried a capacity crowd of last-trip travellers.

1960 November, L. Hyland, “The Irish Scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 691

All night she spent in bidding of her bedes, / And all the day in doing good and godly deedes.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie

Then, as the Sunderland fans' cheers bellowed around the stadium, United's title bid was over when it became apparent City had pinched a last-gasp winner to seal their first title in 44 years.

2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport‎

[Running,] Doyle had passed up a dozen chances to go underground. He was swinging east again making another bid for Arcade.

1967 May, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, Bantam Books, published 1976, page 16

"So we 'lawyered up'. That's how they say it in the bucket, son, where I did an eight-hour bid."

2007, Psych (TV series)