Spake Definition

spāk
verb

Speak.

Webster's New World

(archaic) Simple past tense of speak.

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adjective

(obsolete) Quiet; tame.

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(obsolete) Ready; prompt.

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Origin of Spake

  • From Middle English spake, spak, from Old Norse spakr (“wise, gentle, quiet"), from Proto-Germanic *spakaz (“wise, clever"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peǵ- (“to understand; intelligent, attentive"). Cognate with Swedish spak (“manageable"), Danish spag (“quiet, gentle, timid, tame").

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  • From Middle English spak, from Old English spæc, first and third person singular past tense of specan (“to speak"). More at speak.

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Spake Sentence Examples

  • He spake sound words, which could not reproved.

  • These sons of the wilderness were not, however, very communicative, for they spake never a word more.

  • From the epistles of Paul, who thanked God that he spake with tongues more than all or any of his Corinthian converts, we can gather a just idea of how he regarded this gift and of what it really was.

  • And in One Holy Ghost, the Paraclete, who spake in the Prophets, 9.

  • He spake no untruth; he did desire to go to Bethlehem.

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