About The Word Bespeak
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Bespeak
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What's The Definition Of Bespeak?
[v] express the need or desire for; ask for; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service"
[v] be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued" Synonyms | Synonyms for Bespeak: betoken | call for | indicate | point | quest | request | signal Related Terms | Find terms related to Bespeak: accost | address | announce | apostrophize | appeal to | apply for | apply to | approach | approve | argue | ask | ask for | attest | be construed as | be indicative of | be significant of | be symptomatic of | beg leave | betoken | book | breathe | brief | buttonhole | call for | call to | characterize | connote | crave | demand | demonstrate | denominate | denote | desire | differentiate | disclose | display | employ | engage | entail | evidence | evince | exhibit | express | file for | furnish evidence | give evidence | give indication of | give token | go to show | greet | hail | halloo | highlight | hint | hire | identify | illustrate | imply | import | indent | indicate | invoke | involve | make a request | make a requisition | make application | manifest | mark | mean | memorialize | note | order | point to | preengage | put in for | recruit | refer to | request | requisition | reserve | retain | reveal | salute | set forth | show | show signs of | sign on | sign up | sign up for | signalize | signify | solicit | speak | speak fair | speak for itself | speak to | speak volumes | spell | stand for | suggest | symbolize | symptomatize | symptomize | take aside | take into employment | take on | talk to | tell | tend to show | testify | whistle for | wish | witness See Also | appeal | apply | arrogate | ask | ask in | ask out | ask over | ask round | augur | auspicate | beg | beg off | bode | book | call | challenge | claim | communicate | demand | desire | encore | excuse | forecast | foreshadow | foretell | hold | invite out | invoke | lay claim | mark | omen | order | pass | pass on | petition | portend | predict | prefigure | presage | prognosticate | put across | reserve | solicit | supplicate | take out | tap | tell Bespeak In Webster's Dictionary \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.
\Be*speak"\, v. i. To speak. [Obs.] --Milton. \Be*speak"\, n. A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.) ``The night of her bespeak.'' --Dickens. |
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