bespoken

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.Bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude. Opposite of uncommitted.

Note: [Narrower terms: bound up, involved, wrapped up; dedicated, devoted; pledged, sworn] [WordNet 1.5]

2.Associated in an exclusive sexual relationship; also called attached. Opposite of unattached.

Note: [Narrower terms: affianced, bespoken, betrothed, engaged, pledged, promised(predicate); married] [Also See: loving.]

Syn: attached. [WordNet 1.5]

3.Consigned involuntarily to custody, as in a prison or mental institution. [WordNet 1.5]

1.To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. [1913 Webster]

Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favor.— Sir W. Scott.[1913 Webster]

2.To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate. [1913 Webster]

[They] bespoke dangers . . . in order to scare the allies.— Swift.[1913 Webster]

3.To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances. [1913 Webster]

When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespoke him rather a monster.— Locke.[1913 Webster]

4.To speak to; to address. [Poetic] [1913 Webster]

He thus the queen bespoke.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

1.same as made-to-order; -- of clothing.

Syn: bespoke, custom, made-to-order, tailored, tailor-made. [WordNet 1.5]

2.bound by an agreement to become married to someone.

Syn: affianced, betrothed, engaged, pledged, promised(predicate). [WordNet 1.5]