BESPEA'AK, v.t. pret. bespoke; pp. bespoke, bespoken. [be and speak.] 1. To speak for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak a seat in a public coach. My lade is bespoke.2. To forebode; to foretell. They started fears, and bespoke dangers, to scare the allies.3. To speak to; to address. This sense is mostly poetical. He thus the queen bespoke.4. To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances; as, his manners bespeak him a gentleman.
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