To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for: as, to bespeak a place in a theater.To stipulate, solicit, or ask for, as a favor: as, to bespeak a calm hearing.To forebode; foretell.To speak to; address.To betoken; show; indicate, as by signs.To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.n. Among actors in Great Britain, a benefit: so called from the bespeaking of patronage by the actors, or of the play by the patrons. See benefit, 5.