forspeak

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To injure or cause bad luck through immoderate praise or flattery; to affect with the curse of an evil tongue, which brings ill luck upon all objects of its praise.

   “"I take ye a' to witness, gude people," said Mortheugh, "that she threatens me wi' mischief, and forespeaks me. If onything but gude happens to me or my fiddle this night, I'll make it the blackest night's job she ever stirred in. [...]"”

2. fiil To bewitch, to charm.

   “How are my powres fore-spoke? what strange distaste is this?”

3. fiil To forbid, to prohibit; to oppose.

   “Thou haſt foreſpoke my being in theſe warres, / And ſay'ſt, it is not fit.”

4. fiil To say bad things about; to slander.

   “A mischiefe take thy tatling tongue, the Raven answerde tho. / Thy vaine forspeaking moves me not. And so he forth did go [...]”

5. fiil Alternative spelling of forespeak.