释义 |
beˈspeaking, vbl. n. [f. as prec. + -ing1.] The action of speaking to, for, about, or of.
1661Origen's Opin. in Phœnix (1721) I. 1 Custom, which sends few Books into the world..without some fair bespeaking of the Reader. 1687Dryden Hind & P. To Rdr., A Preface..which is but a bespeaking of Favour. 1711Swift Lett. (1767) III. 243 The dinner was my bespeaking. |