respeak
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- Rhymes: -iːk
Verb edit
respeak (third-person singular simple present respeaks, present participle respeaking, simple past respoke or (archaic, poetic) respake, past participle respoken)
- To speak or utter again.
- (television) To repeat the words of a televised person so that they can be electronically recognised and used to generate subtitles.
- (poetic, obsolete) To answer; to echo.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], lines 127-128:
- And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
Re-speaking earthly thunder.
References edit
- “respeak”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.