forespeaker

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who speaks on behalf of another; an advocate. historical,obsolete
    — When professional lawyers attending the royal courts first become visible to historians in the thirteenth century, it is clear that they were already divided into two groups with distinct functions: the pleaders or 'forespeakers' who spoke for litigants (subject to disavowal) in court; and the attorneys, who acted as ministers or agents with power to bind their clients in the formal process of litigation.

词形变化

forespeakers plural

词源

From Middle English forspeker, vorspekere, from Old English forespreca (“one who speaks on behalf of another; advocate; defender”), equivalent to forespeak + -er or fore- + speaker.
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