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Definition of Forspeak
1. v. t. To forbid; to prohibit.
Definition of Forspeak
1. Verb. (transitive UK dialectal Northern England Scotland) To charm; bewitch. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive UK dialectal Northern England Scotland) To injure or cause bad luck through immoderate praise or flattery; affect with the curse of an evil tongue, which brings ill luck upon all objects of its praise. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To forbid; prohibit. (defdate 15th-19th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Forspeak
1. to forbid [v FORSPOKE, FORSPOKEN, FORSPEAKING, FORSPEAKS] - See also: forbid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forspeak
Literary usage of Forspeak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"20. forspeak, to speak against. Ant. and Cl. iii. 7. ... 'Fasciner, to charm,
bewitch, forspeak ; fascine, ..."
2. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"forspeak me not.] ie, forbid me not, in this instance; but it sometimes means to
foretell and to bewitch. Shakespeare, in "Antony and Cleopatra," act iii., ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"Beckett rebukes Spencer forspeak- ing of the " laws of motion " as the results
of experience, saying that Newton regarded them as self-evident. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1836)
"... injury, &c., is the more prevalent one in Anglo-Saxon and English words
compounded with/or— forego, forswear, forget, forsake, the Scottish forspeak, ..."
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