bespeak

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.

   “[They] bespoke dangers […] in order to scare the allies.”

2. fiil To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.

   “concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favour”

3. fiil To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.

   “to bespeak a calm hearing”

4. fiil To forbode; foretell.
5. fiil To speak to; address.

   “Then ſtaring on her with a ghaſtly Look, / And hollow Voice, he thus the Queen beſpoke.”

6. fiil To betoken; show; indicate; depict; foretell; suggest; allude to.

   “This act bespeaks his kindness.”

7. fiil To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.
8. isim A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.

   “"By the bye, I've been thinking of bringing out that piece of yours on her bespeak night." "When?" asked Nicholas. "The night of her bespeak. Her benefit night. When her friends and patrons bespeak the play." "Oh! I understand," replied Nicholas.”