Definitions for spake

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Spelling: [speyk]

IPA: /speɪk/

Spake is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in spake (aekps).

Definitions for spake

verb

1. a simple past tense of speak.

Idioms

1. so to speak, to use a manner of speaking; figuratively speaking:
2. speak by the book, to say with great authority or precision:
3. speak well for, to be an indication or reflection of (something commendable); testify admirably to:
4. to speak of, worth mentioning:

Verb phrases

1. speak for, to intercede for or recommend; speak in behalf of. to express or articulate the views of; represent. to choose or prefer; have reserved for oneself:
2. speak out, to express one's opinion openly and unreservedly:

verb (used with object)

1. to utter vocally and articulately:
2. to express or make known with the voice:
3. to declare in writing or printing, or by any means of communication.
4. to make known, indicate, or reveal.
5. to use, or be able to use, in oral utterance, as a language:
6. (of a computer) to express or make known (data, prompts, etc.) by means of an audio response unit.
7. Nautical. to communicate with (a passing vessel) at sea, as by voice or signal:
8. Archaic. to speak to or with.

verb (used without object)

1. to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk:
2. to communicate vocally; mention:
3. to converse:
4. to deliver an address, discourse, etc.:
5. to make a statement in written or printed words.
6. to communicate, signify, or disclose by any means; convey significance.
7. Phonetics. to produce sounds or audible sequences of individual or concatenated sounds of a language, especially through phonation, amplification, and resonance, and through any of a variety of articulatory processes.
8. (of a computer) to express data or other information audibly by means of an audio response unit.
9. to emit a sound, as a musical instrument; make a noise or report.
10. Chiefly British. (of dogs) to bark when ordered.
11. Fox Hunting. (of a hound or pack) to bay on finding a scent.

Origin of spake

before 900; Middle English speken, Old English specan, variant of sprecan; cognate with German sprechen (Old High German sprehhan; compare variant spehhan)

Examples for spake

If your honour would be plasing to let her spake now, or she'd burst, may be.

As He spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever!

spake to 'em by their lone silves when you've aught to say to 'em.

She forgot that other hearers were present: he spake to her alone.

"There's toimes when it's the thing to spake before 'em all," she thought.

spake how their souls were moved with the might and the grace of the Spirit.

While he yet spake, two balls entered his heart, and he fell dead.

Thus he spake, for he was afraid Sir Richard might do him a harm.

As he spake these words, he got up from the table, and went directly to the bed.

So spake reason; but, in spite of all, her voice was ever in his ears and her image in his heart.