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Speak
SPEAK, v.i. pret. spoke, [spake, nearly, obs.] pp. spoke, spoken. It is easy to see that the root of this word is allied to that of beak peak, pick.]
1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts bywords. Children learn to speak at an early age. The organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak. Speak, Lord , for thy servant hearth. I Sam. 3.
2. To utter a speech, discourse or harangue; to utter thoughts in a public assembly. A man may be well informed on a subject, and yet to diffident to speak in public. Many of the nobility make them selves popular by speaking in parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty.
3. To talk; to express opinions; to dispute. An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when the knave is not.
4. To discourse; to make mention of. Lucan speaks of a part of Cesar's army that came to him from the Leman lake. The Scripture speaks only of those to whom it speaks.
5. To give sound. Make all your trumpets speak.
TO SPEAK WITH, to converse with. Let me speak with my son.
SPEAK, v.t.
1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately; as human beings. They sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him. Job 2. Speak the word, and my son shall be healed. Mat 8.
2. To declare; to proclaim; to celebrate. It is my father's music to speak your deeds.
3. To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation. A man may know how to read and to understand a language which he cannot speak.
4. To address; to accost. He will smile upon thee, put thee in hope, and speak thee fair.
5. To exhibit; to make known. Let heav'n's wide circuit speak the Maker's high magnificence.
6. To express silently or by signs. The lady's looks or eyes speak the meaning or wishes of her heart.
7. To communicate; as, to speak peace to the soul.
TO SPEAK A SHIP, to hail and speak to her captain or commander. [Note. We say, to speak a word or syllable, to speak a sentence, an oration, piece, composition, or a dialogue, to speak a man's praise, etc.; but we never say, to speak an argument, a sermon or a story.]
speak appears in definitions for these words:
Able Above Abscission Accent Accentuation Accessory Accost Accosting Acoustic Action Address Addressing Admiral Allegory Allocution Alternation Altiloquence Ambiloquous Amobeum Amplify Anacoenosis Ancient Answer Anthropological Apologetic Apologist Apologize Apophasis Aporon Apostrophize Areopagus Armoric Artificial Aside Attempt Attentive Averse Back Backbite Backbiter Bank Banking Battologist Battology Bear Beat Becoming Bema Benediction Bespeaak Bespeaking Better Bigness Bilinguous Blanch Blandiloquence Blaspheme Blasphemer Blazoner Blossom Blunder Boast Bold Branch Brawl Brotherly Bust But Buzz Cadency Call Cant Canting Carry Carthusian Cast Catachresis Cease Celerity Celibate Chair Chair-man Charioteer Child Circumference Circumlocution Clamorous Close-tongued Collocution Collocutor Colloquist Comfortabley Commend Committee Communication Compass Composition Concerning Conciseness Condition Conjecture Conjunction Conquest Constitution Construction Contingent Contradict Contradistinction Contrast Contribution Controll Cool Correctly Correctness Country Credit Croak Crook Cry Cue Curiologic Dainty Darkness Deceit Declaim Declaimant Declaiming Declamation Declension Decorum Defame Defect Defective Deformity Degeneracy Degree Deliver Deliverance Delivery Deponent Depravation Despairingly Desperate Detriment Dialect Dialogist Dialogue Dictate Diction Dictionary Die Diffidence Dignity Digress Dilating Diminutively Direct Discourser Disorganization Disposition Dispraise Disproportion Disputable Dissolution Distain Distempered Double Downfall Doxology Draw Drawl Dread Drove Dubiousness Dumb Dumbness Dwell Dysphony Earliness East Edict Edification Effable Egotism Egotist Elegance Elegant Elegy Elocution Elocutive Eloquence Eloquent Emendation Eminence Emir Emphasis Encompassment Enlarge Enlarging Enormity Enthusiastic Epic Epidemic Epilogue Epistle Equality Eternity Eulogist Eulogize Eulogizing Euphemism Evil Evildoer Evilspeaking Exclaimer Exclaiming Exclamatory Exercise Exigence Existence Exorbitant Exposure Express Extemporal Extempore Extemporiizing Extemporize Extemporizer Exterior Fable Facund Faintly Falsely Falter Faltering Fame Family Fascination Fastidiously Fate Faulty Feature Feelingly Fib Fight Figure Fill Finger Fix Fling Flippant Flow Fluency Fluent Fluently Foible Folly For Forborne Foreigner Foreman Form Fortuitous Forward Fraternity Freedom Freespoken Freetongued Frothy Full Function Gag Gastriloquist Gather General Generally Genteelness Gesticulate Gesticulation Gibber Glibly Grace Graceful Gracefully Grammar Grammatically Grandeur Grandiloquence Grandiloquous Gratification Grecize Ground Growth Habit Hack Handle Harp Harshly Haughtily Haw Hawing Heal Hear Heart Heathful Heaven Hebraism Hebraize Here Hesitate Hiatus High Hight Hiss Hither Hold Homespeaking Homologate Howl Hum Humanly Humbird Humorist Humorous Hyperbolize I Identity Idle Imagery Imbecility Imitation Immemorial Improperly Impropriety Inarticulation Income Inconsiderable Indict Indifference Indite Ineffable Ineffectualness Ineloquent Infant Inferiority Infinite Infinity Inflection Ingenuous Inhabitant Institution Intelligibly Intent Intercession Interdict Interjection Interlocution Interlocutor Internal Interrupt Interruption Interstice Intonation Introduction Investigation Irishism Ironical Irony Is Issue Italianize Jingle Jurisdiction Just Kingdom Know Land Language Larynx Latent Lexicon Liberty Lie Line Lisp Loftily Logic Londonism Long-winded Loquacious Lost Lothness Love Low Magniloquence Maiden Maledicency Maledicent Malediction Man Masterly Matter Mealy-mouthed Meaning Meanly Measure Mediate Medium Mention Merit Messiah Middling Might Mildly Mimic Mimick Mince Mincing Mind Mispronounce Missay Misspeak Mock Mode Modesty Modulate Modulation Monarchy Monotony Moral Moralize Motive Mouth Mouthed Movingly Much Muffle Multiloquous Mum Mumble Mumbler Mummer Mute Muteness Myself Mystery Name Nation Natural Nature Negation Neither New Nimble-witted Nose Notice Number Obloquy Occidental Occurrence Ocean Off Office Ogle Operation Opinion Opposer Orator Oratorial Oratory Orthoepy Out Outspeak Overspeak Ox Page Panegyrist Pantomime Paper Paralepsis Parley Parliament Passionately Pastoral Pathos Pauciloquy Pause Pausing Peace Peg Periphrase Permanent Peroration Personal Perspicuity Perversion Petition Phrase Phraseology Physical Plaice Plain-dealing Plain-spoken Play Pleonasm Point Polarity Policy Political Positively Power Pray Preface Premise Preposition Presence Presentment Pressure Pretension Prince Privilege Proceeding Produce Product Profession Profit Prolegomena Prolocutor Prompt Prompted Prompter Prompting Pronounce Pronouncing Propriety Proselyte Prosopopeia Proverbialist Provincialism Pule Put Questionable Quote Quoter Quoth Race Raise Rapid Rapidly Rather Ratio Rattle Read Reason Reasonable Recognize Redden Refine Region Religion Remark Replier Respeak Responsory Restoration Reticence Reverberation Reverently Reversal Revocation Rhapsodist Rhetor Rhetoric Rhetorician Riddle Riddler Rote Run Save Say Saying Scale Scantily Seeing Semicolon Sense Sensibility Settle Shade Shall Should Show Shrewishly Sign Signification Silence Silent Sir Sit Skill Snappish Snarl Sneak Snuffle Snuffler Snuffling So Softly Soliloquy Sound South Spake Speak Speaker Speech-maker Speechless Speed Spick Spirit Spite Splutter Spoke Spoken Spokesman Sputter Sputtering Squeak Stab Stage Stalk Stammer Stammerer Stammering Stammeringly Start Stentorophonic Stiffness Sting Stone Strain Strength Stuff Stuttering Style Subscription Succession Suffice Superlatively Surprise Swift Syllogism Synonymous T Taciturn Taciturnity Talk Talkativeness Talking Tallow Tax Teach Tell Temper Temperature Tenor Testify Text That Theme Theodicy Thick Think Thought Threaten Throw Tiresomeness Tolerably Tone Tongue-tied Touch Trade Tranquillity Treat Tribune Trippingly Trumpet Trust Truth Tung Turgidness Understand Undulatory Unembarrassed Unfirm Unguardedly Upwards Utter Utterance Vehemence Ventiloquous Ventriloquism Ventriloquy Veracious Verbose Verboseness Victor Vine Virtue Volubility Wag Wages Wait Walk Warm We Weigh Well-spoken Well-water West Whisper Whispering Whist Why Without Wont Word Worder Wordless Wordy World Worser Write
Able Above Abscission Accent Accentuation Accessory Accost Accosting Acoustic Action Address Addressing Admiral Allegory Allocution Alternation Altiloquence Ambiloquous Amobeum Amplify Anacoenosis Ancient Answer Anthropological Apologetic Apologist Apologize Apophasis Aporon Apostrophize Areopagus Armoric Artificial Aside Attempt Attentive Averse Back Backbite Backbiter Bank Banking Battologist Battology Bear Beat Becoming Bema Benediction Bespeaak Bespeaking Better Bigness Bilinguous Blanch Blandiloquence Blaspheme Blasphemer Blazoner Blossom Blunder Boast Bold Branch Brawl Brotherly Bust But Buzz Cadency Call Cant Canting Carry Carthusian Cast Catachresis Cease Celerity Celibate Chair Chair-man Charioteer Child Circumference Circumlocution Clamorous Close-tongued Collocution Collocutor Colloquist Comfortabley Commend Committee Communication Compass Composition Concerning Conciseness Condition Conjecture Conjunction Conquest Constitution Construction Contingent Contradict Contradistinction Contrast Contribution Controll Cool Correctly Correctness Country Credit Croak Crook Cry Cue Curiologic Dainty Darkness Deceit Declaim Declaimant Declaiming Declamation Declension Decorum Defame Defect Defective Deformity Degeneracy Degree Deliver Deliverance Delivery Deponent Depravation Despairingly Desperate Detriment Dialect Dialogist Dialogue Dictate Diction Dictionary Die Diffidence Dignity Digress Dilating Diminutively Direct Discourser Disorganization Disposition Dispraise Disproportion Disputable Dissolution Distain Distempered Double Downfall Doxology Draw Drawl Dread Drove Dubiousness Dumb Dumbness Dwell Dysphony Earliness East Edict Edification Effable Egotism Egotist Elegance Elegant Elegy Elocution Elocutive Eloquence Eloquent Emendation Eminence Emir Emphasis Encompassment Enlarge Enlarging Enormity Enthusiastic Epic Epidemic Epilogue Epistle Equality Eternity Eulogist Eulogize Eulogizing Euphemism Evil Evildoer Evilspeaking Exclaimer Exclaiming Exclamatory Exercise Exigence Existence Exorbitant Exposure Express Extemporal Extempore Extemporiizing Extemporize Extemporizer Exterior Fable Facund Faintly Falsely Falter Faltering Fame Family Fascination Fastidiously Fate Faulty Feature Feelingly Fib Fight Figure Fill Finger Fix Fling Flippant Flow Fluency Fluent Fluently Foible Folly For Forborne Foreigner Foreman Form Fortuitous Forward Fraternity Freedom Freespoken Freetongued Frothy Full Function Gag Gastriloquist Gather General Generally Genteelness Gesticulate Gesticulation Gibber Glibly Grace Graceful Gracefully Grammar Grammatically Grandeur Grandiloquence Grandiloquous Gratification Grecize Ground Growth Habit Hack Handle Harp Harshly Haughtily Haw Hawing Heal Hear Heart Heathful Heaven Hebraism Hebraize Here Hesitate Hiatus High Hight Hiss Hither Hold Homespeaking Homologate Howl Hum Humanly Humbird Humorist Humorous Hyperbolize I Identity Idle Imagery Imbecility Imitation Immemorial Improperly Impropriety Inarticulation Income Inconsiderable Indict Indifference Indite Ineffable Ineffectualness Ineloquent Infant Inferiority Infinite Infinity Inflection Ingenuous Inhabitant Institution Intelligibly Intent Intercession Interdict Interjection Interlocution Interlocutor Internal Interrupt Interruption Interstice Intonation Introduction Investigation Irishism Ironical Irony Is Issue Italianize Jingle Jurisdiction Just Kingdom Know Land Language Larynx Latent Lexicon Liberty Lie Line Lisp Loftily Logic Londonism Long-winded Loquacious Lost Lothness Love Low Magniloquence Maiden Maledicency Maledicent Malediction Man Masterly Matter Mealy-mouthed Meaning Meanly Measure Mediate Medium Mention Merit Messiah Middling Might Mildly Mimic Mimick Mince Mincing Mind Mispronounce Missay Misspeak Mock Mode Modesty Modulate Modulation Monarchy Monotony Moral Moralize Motive Mouth Mouthed Movingly Much Muffle Multiloquous Mum Mumble Mumbler Mummer Mute Muteness Myself Mystery Name Nation Natural Nature Negation Neither New Nimble-witted Nose Notice Number Obloquy Occidental Occurrence Ocean Off Office Ogle Operation Opinion Opposer Orator Oratorial Oratory Orthoepy Out Outspeak Overspeak Ox Page Panegyrist Pantomime Paper Paralepsis Parley Parliament Passionately Pastoral Pathos Pauciloquy Pause Pausing Peace Peg Periphrase Permanent Peroration Personal Perspicuity Perversion Petition Phrase Phraseology Physical Plaice Plain-dealing Plain-spoken Play Pleonasm Point Polarity Policy Political Positively Power Pray Preface Premise Preposition Presence Presentment Pressure Pretension Prince Privilege Proceeding Produce Product Profession Profit Prolegomena Prolocutor Prompt Prompted Prompter Prompting Pronounce Pronouncing Propriety Proselyte Prosopopeia Proverbialist Provincialism Pule Put Questionable Quote Quoter Quoth Race Raise Rapid Rapidly Rather Ratio Rattle Read Reason Reasonable Recognize Redden Refine Region Religion Remark Replier Respeak Responsory Restoration Reticence Reverberation Reverently Reversal Revocation Rhapsodist Rhetor Rhetoric Rhetorician Riddle Riddler Rote Run Save Say Saying Scale Scantily Seeing Semicolon Sense Sensibility Settle Shade Shall Should Show Shrewishly Sign Signification Silence Silent Sir Sit Skill Snappish Snarl Sneak Snuffle Snuffler Snuffling So Softly Soliloquy Sound South Spake Speak Speaker Speech-maker Speechless Speed Spick Spirit Spite Splutter Spoke Spoken Spokesman Sputter Sputtering Squeak Stab Stage Stalk Stammer Stammerer Stammering Stammeringly Start Stentorophonic Stiffness Sting Stone Strain Strength Stuff Stuttering Style Subscription Succession Suffice Superlatively Surprise Swift Syllogism Synonymous T Taciturn Taciturnity Talk Talkativeness Talking Tallow Tax Teach Tell Temper Temperature Tenor Testify Text That Theme Theodicy Thick Think Thought Threaten Throw Tiresomeness Tolerably Tone Tongue-tied Touch Trade Tranquillity Treat Tribune Trippingly Trumpet Trust Truth Tung Turgidness Understand Undulatory Unembarrassed Unfirm Unguardedly Upwards Utter Utterance Vehemence Ventiloquous Ventriloquism Ventriloquy Veracious Verbose Verboseness Victor Vine Virtue Volubility Wag Wages Wait Walk Warm We Weigh Well-spoken Well-water West Whisper Whispering Whist Why Without Wont Word Worder Wordless Wordy World Worser Write
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