bespeak vs spend

bespeak

verb
  • To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance. 

  • To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest; allude to. 

  • To speak up or out; exclaim; speak. 

  • To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss. 

  • To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour. 

spend

verb
  • To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon. 

  • To waste or wear away; to be consumed. 

  • To exhaust, to wear out. 

  • To be diffused; to spread. 

  • To pay out (money). 

  • To consume, to use up (time). 

  • To break ground; to continue working. 

noun
  • Discharged semen. 

  • Expenditures; money or pocket money. 

  • Vaginal discharge. 

  • Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure. 

How often have the words bespeak and spend occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )