different between bespeak vs evidence

English

Etymology

From Middle English bespeken, bispeken, from Old English *bespecan, besprecan (“to speak about, speak against, accuse of, claim at law, complain”), from Proto-Germanic *bisprekan? (“to discuss, blame”), equivalent to be- +? speak. Cognate with Scots bespeke (“to beseech, speak or negotiate with”), West Frisian besprekke (“to discuss”), Dutch bespreken (“to discuss, review, debate”), German besprechen (“to discuss, review, talk about”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??spi?k/
• Rhymes: -i?k

Verb

bespeak (third-person singular simple present bespeaks, present participle bespeaking, simple past bespoke or (archaic) bespake, past participle bespoken or (archaic) bespoke)

1. (transitive) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
   • 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 3, The Examiner, Number 44, page 244

     [They] bespoke dangers […] in order to scare the allies.

   • 2006, Janet Jaymes, Dirty Laundry: A Memoir:

     But to bespeak of a love, heavily weighed upon a heart, toward someone opposing those sentiments encourages foolish and embarrassing repercussions he will never know about.

2. (transitive) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
   • 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

     concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favour

   • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House

     I walked on into the village, with the desertion of this house upon my mind, and I found the landlord of the little inn, sanding his door-step. I bespoke breakfast, and broached the subject of the house.

3. (transitive) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.

4. (transitive, archaic) To forbode; foretell.
5. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address.
6. (transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest; allude to.

   • When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespake him rather a monster.

   • This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.

   • 1921, Printers' Ink, Volume 114, Page 50:

     Are they telling your story vividly, strikingly, in designs that command attention, in colors that bespeak distinction?
7. (intransitive) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.

Derived terms

• bespeaker
• bespeaking
• bespoke

Translations

Noun

bespeak (plural bespeaks)

1. A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.
   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

     "By the bye, I've been thinking of bringing out that piece of yours on her bespeak night."

     "When?", asked Nicholas.

     "The night of her bespeak. Her benefit night. When her friends and patrons bespeak the play."

     "Oh! I understand", replied Nicholas.

References

Anagrams

• bespake

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??sp?k/
• (North Northern Scots) IPA^(key): /b??sp?k/

Verb

bespeak (third-person singular present bespeaks, present participle bespeakin, past bespak, past participle bespoken)

1. to bespeak

English

Etymology

From Middle English evidence, from Old French [Term?], from Latin evidentia (“clearness, in Late Latin a proof”), from evidens (“clear, evident”); see evident.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?d?ns/, /??v?d?ns/
• (US) IPA^(key): [??v???ns]
• Hyphenation: ev?i?dence

Noun

evidence (usually uncountable, plural evidences)

1. Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
   • 1748, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

     In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

2. (law) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
3. One who bears witness.
   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 53:

     He recapitulated the Sybil’s story word by word, with the air of a man who is cross-examining an evidence, and trying to make him contradict himself.

4. A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with the term "evidence": documentary, physical, empirical, scientific, material, circumstantial, anectodal, objective, strong, weak, conclusive, hard

Derived terms

Related terms

• evident
• evidential

Translations

Verb

evidence (third-person singular simple present evidences, present participle evidencing, simple past and past participle evidenced)

1. (transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

Usage notes

• To be distinguished from evince.

Translations

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:evidence.

Further reading

• evidence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• evidence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??v?d?nt?s?]
• Rhymes: -?nts?

Noun

evidence f

1. records
2. registry, repository

Related terms

• See vize
• eviden?ní
• evidovat
• evidentní

See also

• záznamy
• databáze
• registr

Further reading

• evidence in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• evidence in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Friulian

Noun

evidence f (plural evidencis)

1. evidence

Middle French

Noun

evidence f (plural evidences)

1. evidence

Descendants

• French: évidence