Verb

(en verb)

To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit.

His courage manifested itself via the look on his face.

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''Not I; I must be found;

''My parts, my title, and my perfect soul

''Shall manifest me rightly.

To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.

Verb

(lb) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.

*2006 , Janet Jaymes, Dirty Laundry: A Memoir :

*:But to bespeak of a love, heavily weighed upon a heart, toward someone opposing those sentiments encourages foolish and embarrassing repercussions he will never know about.

(lb) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.

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*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

*:concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favour

(lb) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.

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To forbode; foretell.

To speak to; address.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:He thus the queen bespoke .

(lb) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest.

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*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

*:[They] bespoke dangersin order to scare the allies.

*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

*:When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespoke him rather a monster.

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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.

(lb) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.