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Spake vs Opake - What's the difference?

spake | opake |

As adjectives the difference between spake and opake

is that spake is (obsolete) quiet; tame while opake is .

As a verb spake

is (archaic) (speak).

spake

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) spake, spak, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Quiet; tame.
  • (obsolete) Ready; prompt.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) spak, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

  • (archaic) (speak)
  • * , Genesis 8:15-16
    • And God spake unto Noah, saying,
    Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

    References

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    Anagrams

    * * English irregular simple past forms

    opake

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1969 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Douglas McKie , title= , chapter= citation , genre=Science , publisher=Harvard Univ. Press , isbn= , page=187 , passage=The artificial marble made here is made in the common way with Gypsum Lime and other materials and the artist who is an Italian calls himself a Scagliolist (Scagliola being their name for Gypsum or works in Gypsum) he imitates some of the opake and coloured marbles ... }} ----