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adjective

Spoken adj.

Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word.

Characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking; often in composition; as, a pleasant-spoken man. "Methinks you 're better spoken."

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Etymology of 'Spoken'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spoken" Quotes from Famous Books

... to George on the steps of the private entrance, and George said to him: 'I won't ask you to come in, Flanders, for I have too much work to attend to, and I can't entertain you.' These are the last words that George is known to have spoken." ...

— The Somnambulist and the Detective - The Murderer and the Fortune Teller • Allan Pinkerton

... time is moving. We believe that some who oppose, or fear, or denounce our movement are themselves caught in various eddies that set back against the truth. And we do most earnestly desire and most actively strive, that Medicine, which, it is painful to remember, has been spoken of as "the withered branch of science" at a meeting of the British Association, shall be at length brought fully to share, if not to lead, the great wave of knowledge which rolls with the ...

— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... He goes to seat himself in his old position but stops a moment when spoken to, and then in a petulant manner takes his seat ...

— The Turn of the Road - A Play in Two Scenes and an Epilogue • Rutherford Mayne

... his rounds peeped through the spy-hole again and saw the man still lying on the floor, he grew angry. He noisily opened the little door. "By Jove, are you still there? Number 19! Do you hear? Is anything the matter?" The last words were spoken almost gently; a stupid fellow might imagine that he was pitied. But that was not the case. As a ...

— I.N.R.I. - A prisoner's Story of the Cross • Peter Rosegger

... building there, now the Colonial Apartments, is still spoken of as The Seminary. It was there that Miss Lydia English conducted her fashionable school for young ladies for many years before the Civil War. This was the school to which Andrew Johnson, while senator from Tennessee, sent his daughter. Years after, ...

— A Portrait of Old George Town • Grace Dunlop Ecker

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