Usually means: Indicate, suggest, or be evidence.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word bespeak:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. bespeak: Merriam-Webster
  2. bespeak: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bespeak: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bespeak: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bespeak: Vocabulary.com
  6. bespeak: Wordnik
  7. bespeak: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bespeak: Wiktionary
  9. bespeak: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bespeak: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bespeak: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bespeak, bespeak: Dictionary.com
  13. Bespeak: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. bespeak: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. bespeak: Rhymezone
  16. Bespeak: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. bespeak: FreeDictionary.org
  18. bespeak: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. bespeak: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. bespeak: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bespeak: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bespeak: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bespeak)

verb:  (transitive, formal or archaic) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
verb:  (transitive) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
verb:  (transitive) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To forbode; foretell.
verb:  (transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address.
verb:  (transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; depict; foretell; suggest; allude to.
verb:  (intransitive) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.
noun:  (archaic) A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.

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