bespake
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 .
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Concluding ,
naturally ,
that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favor . --
Sir W .
Scott .
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2 .
To show beforehand ;
to foretell ;
to indicate .
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[
They ]
bespoke dangers . . .
in order to scare the allies . --
Swift .
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3 .
To betoken ;
to show ;
to indicate by external marks or appearances .
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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 .
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4 .
To speak to ;
to address . [
Poetic ]
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He thus the queen bespoke . --
Dryden .
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