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Bespeak v. t. (past bespoke, archaic bespake; past part. bespoken; pres. part. bespeaking)

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."

To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate. "(They) bespoke dangers... in order to scare the allies."

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."

To speak to; to address. (Poetic) "He thus the queen bespoke."

Bespeak v. i. (past bespoke, archaic bespake; past part. bespoken; pres. part. bespeaking) To speak. (Obs.)

adjective

bespoken adj.

Same as made-to-order; of clothing.

Synonyms: bespoke, custom, made-to-order, tailored, tailor-made.

Bound by an agreement to become married to someone.

Synonyms: affianced, betrothed, engaged, pledged, promised(predicate).

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Etymology of 'Bespoken'

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"Bespoken" Quotes from Famous Books

... to Ajaccio is about fifty miles; the most interesting objects on the road being the great forest of Vizzavona, and Bocagnono embosomed in chestnut woods. In order to take these leisurely, mules were bespoken at Vivario, a mountain village at the foot of Monte d'Oro, as far as which we determined to avail ourselves of the diligence passing through Corte, en route from Bastia to Ajaccio. For the first two stages after leaving Corte we knew that there was little temptation to linger on the ...

— Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia - with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. • Thomas Forester

... all summer in London, is one more reason for which I regret my long stay in the country. I hope that you will not leave the town before my return. We have here only the chance of vacancies in the passing carriages, and I have bespoken one that may, if it happens, bring me to town on the fourteenth of this month; ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... moment when Krassotkin opened the door and came into the room, the captain and all the boys were round Ilusha's bed, looking at a tiny mastiff pup, which had only been born the day before, though the captain had bespoken it a week ago to comfort and amuse Ilusha, who was still fretting over the lost and probably dead Zhutchka. Ilusha, who had heard three days before that he was to be presented with a puppy, not an ordinary puppy, but a pedigree mastiff (a very ...

— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... Mrs George Borrow (24th March 1851) to tell her that W. B. Donne had been unable to obtain Lavengro for The Edinburgh Review as it had been bespoken a year previously by Dr Bowring, Dr Hake adds that Donne had written "putting the editor in possession of his view of Lavengro, as regards verisimilitude, vouching for the Daguerreotype-like fidelity of the picture in the first volume, etc., etc., in order to prevent him from being TAKEN ...

— The Life of George Borrow • Herbert Jenkins

... bay windows, in which stood a large table. It had other very large tables in it, with benches round; and at that time the floor was covered with rushes, against some solemn festival, which I heard it was bespoken for. ...

— The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself • Thomas Ellwood

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