Spoken

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Spoken \Spo"ken\ (sp[=o]"k'n), a. [p. p. of Speak.]

1. Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a
spoken narrative; the spoken word.
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2. Characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking; --
often in composition; as, a pleasant-spoken man.
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Methinks you 're better spoken. --Shak.
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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.]

1. 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.
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Till at the last spake in this manner. --Chaucer.
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Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. --1 Sam. iii.

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2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.
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That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set,
as the tradesmen speak. --Boyle.
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An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a
knave is not. --Shak.
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During the century and a half which followed the
Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English
history. --Macaulay.
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3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a
public assembly formally.
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Many of the nobility made themselves popular by
speaking in Parliament against those things which
were most grateful to his majesty. --Clarendon.
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4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell.
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Lycan speaks of a part of Caesar's army that came to
him from the Leman Lake. --Addison.
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5. To give sound; to sound.
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Make all our trumpets speak. --Shak.
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6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by
utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.
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Thine eye begins to speak. --Shak.
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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.
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Syn: To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate;
pronounce; utter.
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spoken
adj 1: uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by
speech; sometimes used in combination; "a spoken
message"; "the spoken language"; "a soft-spoken person";
"sharp-spoken" [ant: written]

spoken [spoukən]
geredet; gesprochen; sprechend

spoken [spokən]
haunt

spoken

gesprochen; geredet

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "spoken":
articulate, articulated, colloquial, common, conversational,
enunciated, everyday, familiar, informal, lingual, linguistic,
nonstandard, nuncupative, oral, parol, pronounced, said, sonant,
sounded, speak, speech, substandard, traditional, uneducated,
unliterary, unstudied, unwritten, uttered, verbal, vernacular,
viva voce, vocal, vocalized, voiced, voiceful, word-of-mouth

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