4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bespeak \Be*speak"\, v. i.
To speak. [Obs.] --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bespeak \Be*speak"\, v. t. [imp. {Bespoke}, {Bespake} (Archaic);
p. p. {Bespoke}, {Bespoken}; p. pr & vb n. {Bespeaking}.]
[OE. bispeken AS besprecan to speak to accuse; pref. be-
+ sprecan to speak. See {Speak}.]
1. To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage
against a future time; as to bespeak goods, a right or a
favor.
Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice
was to bespeak his favor. --Sir W.
Scott.
2. To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate.
[They] bespoke dangers . . . in order to scare the
allies. --Swift.
3. To betoken; to show to indicate by external marks or
appearances.
When the abbot of St Martin was born, he had so
little the figure of a man that it bespoke him
rather a monster. --Locke.
4. To speak to to address. [Poetic]
He thus the queen bespoke. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bespeak \Be*speak"\, n.
A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play
is bespoken.) ``The night of her bespeak.'' --Dickens.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bespeak
v 1: be a signal for or a symptom of "These symptoms indicate a
serious illness" [syn: {betoken}, {indicate}, {point}, {signal}]
2: express the need or desire for ask for "She requested an
extra bed in her room" [syn: {request}, {call for}, {quest}]
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