well bespokenadj.

Brit.

/ˌwɛl bᵻˈspəʊk(ə)n/, U.S.

/ˌwɛl bəˈspoʊkən/,

/ˌwɛl biˈspoʊkən/

Forms: see well adv. and n.⁴ and bespoken adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; originally modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: well adv., bespoken adj.

Etymology: < well adv. + bespoken adj., originally after Middle French bien parlé (15th cent. in the passage translated in quot. ?1473, or earlier). Compare earlier well-spoken adj., and also fair-spoken adj.

Courteous in speech, fair-spoken.

ΚΠ

?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 36 Archas..was right wise and well bespoken [Fr. bienparlé].

1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. vi. 133 The hostelers ought to be well bespoken and courtoys of wordes [Fr. Il doivent aussi bel et courtoisement parler].

1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos x. sig. Cviii Fayr and wel byspoken.

1797 ‘Gabrielli’ Mysterious Wife II. xi. 186 A gentleman was here some time ago to inquire every particular about you—a might well-bespoken person, as a body would wish to see.

1800 Sailor Boy II. v. 78 She is sober and well bespoken, and thoroughly good-tempered.

1873 Boys of Eng. 15 Mar. 252/2 Evidently they were no robbers, being both young and well-bespoken.

2003 Jrnl. Mod. Lit. 27 i/ii. 117 The ‘imager’ grants these ghosts what they had ‘lacked’; now well bespoken, he grants and gives, creating a fiction of a reality they are unable to experience directly.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	well bespoken
释义	well bespokenadj. Brit. /ˌwɛl bᵻˈspəʊk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌwɛl bəˈspoʊkən/, /ˌwɛl biˈspoʊkən/ Forms: see well adv. and n.⁴ and bespoken adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; originally modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: well adv., bespoken adj. Etymology: < well adv. + bespoken adj., originally after Middle French bien parlé (15th cent. in the passage translated in quot. ?1473, or earlier). Compare earlier well-spoken adj., and also fair-spoken adj. Courteous in speech, fair-spoken. ΚΠ ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 36 Archas..was right wise and well bespoken [Fr. bienparlé]. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. vi. 133 The hostelers ought to be well bespoken and courtoys of wordes [Fr. Il doivent aussi bel et courtoisement parler]. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos x. sig. Cviii Fayr and wel byspoken. 1797 ‘Gabrielli’ Mysterious Wife II. xi. 186 A gentleman was here some time ago to inquire every particular about you—a might well-bespoken person, as a body would wish to see. 1800 Sailor Boy II. v. 78 She is sober and well bespoken, and thoroughly good-tempered. 1873 Boys of Eng. 15 Mar. 252/2 Evidently they were no robbers, being both young and well-bespoken. 2003 Jrnl. Mod. Lit. 27 i/ii. 117 The ‘imager’ grants these ghosts what they had ‘lacked’; now well bespoken, he grants and gives, creating a fiction of a reality they are unable to experience directly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmas well bespoken †1. Spoken, of speech; as in well bespoken. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. vi. 133 The hostelers ought to be well bespoken and courtoys of wordes. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 387/4 A mayden wel bespoken. extracted from bespokenadj. < adj.?1473 as lemmas
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well bespokenadj.

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