LekhoriLekhoriA request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.
"By the bye, I've been thinking of bringing out that piece of yours on her bespeak night." "When?" asked Nicholas. "The night of her bespeak. Her benefit night. When her friends and patrons bespeak the play." "Oh! I understand," replied Nicholas.
From Middle English bespeken, bispeken, from Old English *bespecan, besprecan (“to speak about, speak against, accuse of, claim at law, complain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisprekan (“to discuss, bl...
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To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favour
To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.
to bespeak a calm hearing