The Collaborative International Dictionary
Speak \Speak\, v. i. [imp. Spoke( SpakeArchaic); p. p. Spoken( Spoke, Obs. or Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n. Speaking.] [OE. speken, AS. specan, sprecan; akin to OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG. sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sph[=u]rj to crackle, to thunder. Cf. Spark of fire, Speech.]
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To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.
Till at the last spake in this manner.
--Chaucer.Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth.
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To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.
That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak.
--Boyle.An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
--Shak.During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history.
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To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.
Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty.
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To discourse; to make mention; to tell.
Lycan speaks of a part of C[ae]sar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake.
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To give sound; to sound.
Make all our trumpets speak.
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To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.
Thine eye begins to speak.
--Shak.To speak of, to take account of, to make mention of.
--Robynson (More's Utopia).To speak out, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak unreservedly.
To speak well for, to commend; to be favorable to.
To speak with, to converse with. ``Would you speak with me?''
--Shak.Syn: To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate; pronounce; utter.
Usage examples of "to speak with".
When he grows up, able to speak with them, then there will be two of us.
A Radical out and out, she learnt to speak with horror of Suburbia.
I am unable even to communicate with his wife, as she does not have security clearance from Gifre Zeloc to speak with me, any longer.
It was my fear that they would emerge and find none to speak with, would face only certain death.
Chan Ji-Lin listened with half an ear and directed the man to speak with Kang Ho.
I believe they tell the truth, and thus I brought them to speak with the Council.
The multiplex entity of Wanderer chose to speak with the humanoid robot in Its own fashion.
Rhodan and Bell had not closed their helmets, which could have protected them, since they wanted to be able to speak with the Arkonides - and the jets were working noiselessly.
To find her, to speak with her, to participate in her experience of death and whatever lay beyond death, became his only purpose.