Bespeak: alternatives and connections

To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company…

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To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company…

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To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injust…

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To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…

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To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit;…

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To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

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An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenome…

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Auspicious.

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of Beat

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A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

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To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.

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To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.

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A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing c…

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To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message con…

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To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.

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Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part.

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To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to ex…

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To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

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To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.

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To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.

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The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company…

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To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; a…

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A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a p…

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Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a perso…

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To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs.

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To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.

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To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow.

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Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.

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To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.

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In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…

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To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.

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To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.

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To entreat for; to seek by earnest prayer; to ask for earnestly and humbly; as, to supplicate blessings on Christian efforts to spread the gospel.

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To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.

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To share in common; to participate in.

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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.

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To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

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To appoint.

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The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property…

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The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

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A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agr…

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