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Spoke vs Bespeak - What's the difference?

spoke | bespeak |

As nouns the difference between spoke and bespeak

is that spoke is a ghost (spirit appearing after death) while bespeak is a request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.

As a verb bespeak is

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

spoke

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) spaca

Noun

(wikipedia spoke) (en noun)
  • A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
  • (nautical) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
  • A rung of a ladder.
  • A device for fastening the wheel of a vehicle to prevent it from turning when going downhill.

    • Verb

    (spok)
  • To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (speak)

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    bespeak

    English

    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.
  • :
  • *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.
  • :
  • To forbode; foretell.
  • To speak to; address.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:He thus the queen bespoke .
  • (lb) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest.
  • :
  • *(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.

    • Derived terms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.
  • * 1839 , Charles Dickens,
    • "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.

    References

    (Webster 1913)

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