bespeak
verb (used with object)
to ask for in advance.
have bespoken
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present perfectof bespeak.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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I have bespoken fair Peggy for mine, and I am sure Mobray, who is not yet returned, will ask you.
From Janice Meredith by Ford, Paul Leicester
In the mean time, half the tradesmen of Avignon, to say nothing of Aix, have bespoken caricatures of themselves by his hand.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by
"You should have bespoken me at the proper time to attend your wife.—Besides, there'll be no getting along the road to-night."
From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel
Splendid cushions embroidered with gold, woven carpets, gilded censers, would elsewhere have bespoken opulence and respectability, but here seemed only the booty of a robber band.
From The Oriental Story Book A Collection of Tales by Quackenbos, G. P. (George Payn)
In the meantime, half the tradesmen of Avignon, to say nothing of Aix, have bespoken caricatures of themselves by his hand.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
