forspeak
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forspeak¹
- /fɔːˈspiːk/ UK
- /fə-/ UK
- /fɔɹˈspik/ US
- /fɚ-/ US
Sounds like forespeak · Rhymes with -iːk
Where it comes from
From Middle English forspeken (“to bewitch”), from Old English forspecan, forsprecan (“to speak in vain; to speak amiss; to denounce; to deny”); analysable as for- + speak.
verb forspeaks · forspeaking · forspoke · forspake · forspoken · forespeak
- To injure or cause bad luck through immoderate praise or flattery; to affect with the curse of an evil tongue, which brings ill luck upon all objects of its praise. One is said to forspeak another, when he so commends him as to have a supposed influence in making him practically belie the commendation. If one highly praises a child for sweetness of temper, and the child soon after betrays ill humour; the person, who bestowed the praise, is said to have forspoki
- To bewitch, to charm. How are my powres fore-spoke? what strange distaste is this?
- To forbid, to prohibit; to oppose. Thou haſt foreſpoke my being in theſe warres, / And ſay'ſt, it is not fit.
- To say bad things about; to slander. A mischiefe take thy tatling tongue, the Raven answerde tho. / Thy vaine forspeaking moves me not. And so he forth did go [...]
forspeak²
- /fɔːˈspiːk/ UK
- /fə-/ UK
- /fɔɹˈspik/ US
- /fɚ-/ US
Sounds like forespeak · Rhymes with -iːk
Where it comes from
See forespeak.
verb forspeaks · forspeaking · forspoke · forspake · forspoken
- Alternative spelling of forespeak.forespeak The same Henry of Ritchmond (after Henry the seavnth) I know not by what provydence or prophecy forsaw that his sonne Henry was not lyke to please god so well to have the kingdome established in his posterytye and thearfore matched his eldest Dawghter into Skotland thearby as yt wear forspeaking a h
