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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

bespeakable en · ADJ

Etymology

From bespeak + -able.

Meanings

  1. Able to be bespoken or requested at one's convenience.
    • Of subject and invention we have still very little. These we can only obtain from inventors or men of genius — not a bespeakable class by any manner of means. 1861, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 64, page 587:

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most bespeakable Degree=Sup lexicographic
more bespeakable Degree=Cmp lexicographic