noun
definition
A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.
verb
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To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
definition
To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
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To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.
example
to bespeak a calm hearing; I bespeak your patience in advance.
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To forbode; foretell.
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To speak to; address.
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To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest; allude to.
example
This act bespeaks his kindness.
definition
To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.
Examples of bespeak in a Sentence
The whole arrangements and character of the building bespeak the rich and powerful feudal lord, not the humble father of a body of hard-working brethren, bound by vows to a life of poverty and self-denying toil.
Certain proper names in the Latin Version ending in -in seem to bespeak an Aramaic original, as Cettin, Filistin, &c. But since in all these cases the Ethiopic transliterations end in -m and not in -n, it is not improbable that the Aramaism in the Latin Version is due to the translator, who, it has been concluded on other grounds, was a Palestinian Jew.'
Such contradictory impressions bespeak a life made up of contradictory elements.