(v. t.) To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.
(v. t.) To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate.
(v. t.) To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances.
(v. t.) To speak to; to address.
(v. i.) To speak.
(n.) A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.)
Example Sentences:
(1) The constitution bespeaks an alternative model of development based on buen vivir , a notion so novel that it can only be adequately uttered in a non-colonial language, Quechua : sumak kawsay .
(2) One blogger writes: "It bespeaks great scientific arrogance (of the kind that Wolf supposedly decries!)
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Albania has yet to recover from the 40 terrible years of Hoxha’s dictatorship.’ Photograph: Corbis Second, because these jokes bespeak a kind of left cosiness, an assumption of shared assumptions that bodes ill for Labour .
(4) It's an appealingly blunt job description that bespeaks supreme executive power.
(5) Whereas any contemplation suggesting routinization in a plastic surgery endeavor may engender abhorrence or bespeak heresy, some generalizations are essential at least as a foundation from which a logical divergence may proceed.
(6) Moreover, within the same species, the cause of death of an individual varies widely, which again bespeaks against a regulatory mechanism.
(7) In times past, great educators have spoken without compunction about the virtues of discrimination – not the loaded modern use of the word bespeaking one-upmanship and prejudice, but discrimination as a discipline of the intellect and character.
(8) In fact, even appearing as a "celebrity" in a documentary such as this bespeaks a desperation of a professional rather than practical kind (there are ways to investigate poverty without turning to the AK-47 of fleeting and synthetic empathy, reality TV), and that is only its first offence.
(9) Recent advances at clinical and experimental levels bespeak the need for a more complete understanding of cardiac growth and its relationship to somatic growth.
(10) Presumably, recognition mechanisms for hormones in protozoa resemble in some respects those in multicellular organisms, therefore bespeaking a common origin.
(11) When the Labour London assembly member Andrew Dismore accused him last September of lying about cuts to London's fire services, Johnson's considered response was "Get stuffed" – which does not bespeak a coherent political belief system, or even patience with the processes.
(12) In a 24-page legal “letter before claim” sent to Hunt, the quintet claim: “To have taken a decision of such consequence, in the face of such opposition and escalating industrial action, and in the absence of support from leaders in the NHS, in under 24 hours and without consultation, bespeaks of a plainly irrational approach that failed to take account of the ramifications it was likely to involve.” Bindmans letter to Jeremy Hunt The challenge is being undertaken by Justice for Health , a company set up by the five junior doctors: Ben White, Francesca Silman, Marie McVeigh, Nadia Masood and Amar Mashru.
(13) This enkephalinergic system shows striking similarities to opioid mechanisms found in vertebrates and bespeaks a common evolutionary origin.
(14) The unchanging cell ATP concentration with a higher respiratory rate upon addition of exogenous substrate bespeaks increased ATP turnover.
(15) "Ahmadinejad's stubborn defence of Mashaei bespeaks his importance as a key adviser for the increasingly isolated president; he also has emerged as a spokesman for the Ahmadinejad administration.
(16) We still retain from our historical past the notion that mental or emotional illness bespeaks, if not possession by spirits, at least an irreversible condition.
(17) That's not exactly a biography that bespeaks social impotence and alienation.
(18) Religion , he says, glues us together, which doesn't bespeak an enormous amount of faith in the ability of human beings to find common ground outside a certain belief, for example, in the righteousness of the tooth fairy, or the tendency of trolls to live under bridges, although this is understandable – if you take the long view, we have had magic for ever, and the Enlightenment for about 10 minutes.
(19) Fundamental to a successful autopsy request is sensitivity for the family's feelings, which bespeaks respect for the deceased and the family.
(20) Ashker, whose pale, unlined face bespeaks decades without sun, does not expect to leave the hole.
Speak
Definition:
(v. i.) To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.
(v. i.) To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.
(v. i.) To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.
(v. i.) To discourse; to make mention; to tell.
(v. i.) To give sound; to sound.
(v. i.) To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.
(v. t.) To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings.
(v. t.) To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.
(v. t.) To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way.
(v. t.) To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin.
(v. t.) To address; to accost; to speak to.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(2) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
(3) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(4) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(5) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
(6) Speaking to a handpicked audience of community representatives, the prime minister said he had not allowed the EU to get its way.
(7) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
(8) The distribution of cells at the stage of DNA synthesis and mitosis in all the parietal peritoneum speaks of the absence of special proliferation zones.
(9) Again, the boys in care that he abused now speak to us as broken adults.
(10) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(11) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(12) The ability to demonstrate selective augmentation of the functional matrix-associated receptor population, and our recent results showing that gonadotropes are indeed the responsive cells (Singh P, Muldoon TG, unpublished observations) speak to the specificity and relevance of these findings.
(13) Clare Gills, an American journalist and friend of Foley, wrote in 2013: “He is always striving to get to the next place, to get closer to what is really happening, and to understand what moves the people he’s speaking with.
(14) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
(15) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
(16) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
(17) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
(18) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(19) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
(20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.