bespeak

1. (transitive, formal or archaic) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.Examples: "[They] bespoke dangers […] in order to scare the allies."archaicformaltransitive

2. (transitive) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.Examples: "concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favour"; "I walked on into the village, with the desertion of this house upon my mind, and I found the landlord of the little inn, sanding his door-step. I bespoke breakfast, and broached the subject of the house."transitive

3. (transitive) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.Examples: "to bespeak a calm hearing"; "I bespeak your patience in advance."transitive

4. (transitive, archaic) To forbode; foretell.archaictransitive

5. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address.Examples: "Then ſtaring on her with a ghaſtly Look, / And hollow Voice, he thus the Queen beſpoke."; "Spurring his horse, he galloped down to the shore and bespoke them."archaicpoetictransitive

6. (transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; depict; foretell; suggest; allude to.Examples: "This act bespeaks his kindness."; "When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespake him rather a monster."; "Turning her looks unconsciously to that part of the assembly where Douglas leaned, engaged in serious contemplation, Ellina chanced to encounter his eye intently fixed upon her; the expression of which bespeaking at once pity and benevolence, her heart, mortified, reproached her for her lightness."transitive