Be-spēak', v. t.

v. t. [imp. BESPOKE; p. p. BESPOKE, BESPOKEN; p. pr. & vb. n. BESPEAKING.] [be and speak.] 1. To speak for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favor. W. Scott. 2. To indicate or show beforehand; to foretell. They ... bespoke dangers ... in order to scare the allies. Swift. 3. To speak to; to address. [Poet.] “He thus the queen bespoke.” Dryden. 4. 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.