Speak vs Withsay - What's the difference?
speak | withsay |
To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
* , chapter=13
, title= To have a conversation.
(by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
To be able to communicate in a language.
To utter.
* 1611 , (Authorized King James Version) (Bible translation), 9:5:
To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) :
(informal, transitive, sometimes, humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
To produce a sound; to sound.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
* Bible, Ecclus. xiii. 6
* Emerson
language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
To speak against someone or something.
# (label) To renounce, to give up.
#* Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis (1840), 34:
#* (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Seconde Nonnes Tale) in the (tales of Caunterbury) , 447:
# To contradict or deny.
#* (Ancrene Riwle) (Cleopatra C vi), 68:
#* in W. P. Baildon, Select cases in Chancery, A.D. 1364 to 1471 (1896), 136:
#* 1530 , (John Palsgrave), Lesclarcissement , 783/2:
# To gainsay, to oppose in speech (and by extension writing).
#* (w), 139:
#* 1922 , (James Joyce), :
# To forbid, to refuse to allow, give, or permit.
#* Merlin (1899), XIV 204:
#* St. German's Dyaloge Doctoure & Student , VI f xiii:
# To decline, to refuse to do or accept.
#* (Ancrene Riwle) (Cleopatra C vi), 175:
#* 1402 , (Thomas Hoccleve), Letters of Cupid , 108:
#* , Bk.XIII, Ch.iij:
#* ordinance in Collection of Ordinances of the Royal Household - 1327–1694 (1790), 372:
#* 2000 , , Morte D'Urban :
As verbs the difference between speak and withsay
is that speak is to communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud while withsay is to speak against someone or something.As a noun speak
is language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group or speak can be (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.speak
English
(wikipedia speak)Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}
- And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
- There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.
- Make all our trumpets speak .
- [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.
- Each village senior paused to scan / And speak the lovely caravan.
Synonyms
* articulate, talk, verbalizeDerived terms
* public speaking * speakable * speaker * speakeasy * re-speak * unspeakable phrasal verbs * speak down * speak for * speak out * speak to * speak up idioms * actions speak louder than words * on speaking terms * so to speak * speak for oneself * speak highly of * speak ill of * speak in tongues * speak of the devil * speak one's mind * speak softly and carry a big stick * speak someone's language * speak volumes * speak with one voice * spoken forNoun
(-)- Corporate speak; IT speak
Derived terms
* artspeak * cyberspeak * doublespeak * lawyerspeak * leetspeak * medspeak * Newspeak * weather speakStatistics
*withsay
English
Verb
- Terrena desideria respuentes, eardlico lvsto wiðsæcgende .
- Euery]] cristen wight shal han penaunce
But if that he his [[Christendom, cristendom withseye .
- ?ef an mon...deð swa muche mis. þet hit beo se open sunne. þet he hit ne ma?e nanesweis allunge wið seggen .
- He withseieth not the matier]] conteigned in the [[said, seid bille of complainte.
- Sythe]] I have sayd it, I [[will, wyll never withsay it.
- Bi þo da?es luuede herod]]es...his wif, and binam hire him, and Seint [[John the Baptist, Iohan hit wið seide .
- Let the lewd with faith and fervour worship. With will will we withstand, withsay .
- I will in no wise with-sey that ye requere.
- I wyll]] not withsaye thy [[desire, desyre.
- Þeo...wið seggeð þe grant þer of wið an wille heorte.
- She...So lyberal]] ys, she wol no [[wight, wyght with-sey .
- ‘Sir,’ he seyde]], ‘I myght nat withsey myne unclis [[will, wyll.’
- This is in noe wise to bee withsaid , for it is the King's honour.
- He was mild to good men of God and stark beyond all bounds to those who withsaid his will.