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adjective

Spoken adj.

Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word.

Characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking; often in composition; as, a pleasant-spoken man. "Methinks you 're better spoken."

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Etymology of 'Spoken'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spoken" Quotes from Famous Books

... Turner' spoken of in Mr. C.'s letter, is the wife of Hon. Fielding S. Turner, who in 1803 resided at Lexington, Kentucky, and was the attorney for the Commonwealth. Soon after that, he removed to New Orleans, and was for many years Judge of the Criminal ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... Pierre went out from the village, stared at and envied like the great and fortunate of the earth, and their progress to Vaucouleurs was like a triumph, all the country-side flocking to see and salute the brothers of one with whom angels had spoken face to face, and into whose hands by command of God they had delivered the destinies ...

— Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Volume 1 (of 2) • Mark Twain

... require to be told twice to do as her uncle requested. The paper was soon found, and the column that contained the marine intelligence consulted. The niece read a long account of whalers spoken, with so many hundred or so many thousand barrels of oil on board, but could discover no allusion to any sealer. At length she turned her eyes into the body of the journal, which being semi-weekly, or tri-weekly, was crowded ...

— The Sea Lions - The Lost Sealers • James Fenimore Cooper

... author say that the springtime belongs to "the birds and me"? 2. When may we say the birds are our partners and when our servants? 3. What different ways of dealing with birds are spoken of? Which way does the writer prefer? 4. How may you encourage the birds to live near you? 5. What do you gain if you persuade them to do this? Find an answer to this question in the poems that follow. 6. What birds come to trees near your home? 7. How are birds helpful to men? ...

— The Elson Readers, Book 5 • William H. Elson and Christine M. Keck

... spoken to Andrew by his stern father, on the arrival of the latter at the Mayor's office. Mr. Howland looked at the evidence which went to support the charge of intended incendiarism against his son, and to his mind, prejudiced ...

— The Iron Rule - or, Tyranny in the Household • T. S. Arthur

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