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v. - Express the need or desire for; Be a signal for or a symptom of.

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  • The public duties to which he was often called bespeak his ability, and the confidence reposed in him by the leading men of his day.
  • "bespeak" - "commission to be made," according to my Oxford dictionary-a burger.
  • "bespeak," that you can select and arrange to your own taste; that it is not "to take or to leave" at your peril and as it offers itself.
  • Chattering like storks, their weeping eyes bespeak
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