BESPEAK

bespeak. Bespeak, v.t. bespoke, pret. bespoken, pa. to speak to, entreat, order, forebode

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Be‐speak″ (�), v. t. [imp. Bespoke (�), Bespake (Archaic); p. p. Bespoke, Bespoken (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Bespeaking.] [[OE. bispeken, AS. besprecan, to speak to, accuse; pref. be- + sprecan to speak. See Speak.]] 1. 1. To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.
Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favor. Sir W. Scott. 2. 2. To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate.
bespoke dangers . . . in order to scare the allies. Swift. 3. 3. To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances.
When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespoke him rather a monster. Locke. 4. 4. To speak to; to address.
He thus the queen bespoke. Dryden.