(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.
Suggest
Definition:
(v. t.) To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.
(v. t.) To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.
(v. t.) To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
(v. t.) To inform secretly.
(v. i.) To make suggestions; to tempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) The evidence suggests a multifactorial etiology for this problem.
(2) The accumulation of lipids and enzymes such as simple estarase, lipase, beta-HDH, alpha-GDH and NADPH-reductase in those areas, suggests that lipids are not a simple excretory product.
(3) Our results suggest that the peripheral sensitivity to hypoxia declined more than that to CO2, implying a peripheral chemoreceptor origin for hypoxic ventilatory decline.
(4) These data suggest that the hybrid is formed by the same mechanism in the absence and presence of the urea step.
(5) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(6) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(7) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
(8) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
(9) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
(10) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(11) The low affinity of several N1-alkylpyrroleethylamines suggests that the benzene portion of the alpha-methyltryptamines is necessary for significant affinity.
(12) The interaction of the antibody with both the bacterial and the tissue derived polysialic acids suggests that the conformational epitope critical for the interaction is formed by both classes of compounds.
(13) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
(14) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(15) These results demonstrate that increased availability of galactose, a high-affinity substrate for the enzyme, leads to increased aldose reductase messenger RNA, which suggests a role for aldose reductase in sugar metabolism in the lens.
(16) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(17) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
(18) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
(19) It has recently been suggested that procaine penicillin existed in solution in vitro and in vivo as a "procaine - penicillin" complex rather than as dissociated ions.
(20) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.