Definition of "bespake" [bespake]

• Archaic A past tense of bespeak. (verb)

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• "Accordingly, Shimas went in to the King and bespake him, saying,"
• "Whenever the lad bespake him, he answered him kindly, trembling the while and would turn to him groaning and crying, and thus he did till supper was brought in, when he fell to eating, with his eyes on the boy but refrained not from shedding tears."
• "Stoker girthed his ass for flight and bespake himself, saying,"