vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of speaking to, for, about, or of.
1661. Origen’s Opin., in Phœnix (1721), I. 1. Custom, which sends few Books into the world … without some fair bespeaking of the Reader.
1687. Dryden, Hind & P., To Rdr. A Preface … which is but a bespeaking of Favour.
1711. Swift, Lett. (1767), III. 243. The dinner was my bespeaking.
