"speak in terms" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "speaks in terms",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "speaking in terms",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoke in terms",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoken in terms",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "speak<,,spoke,spoken> in terms"
      },
      "expansion": "speak in terms (third-person singular simple present speaks in terms, present participle speaking in terms, simple past spoke in terms, past participle spoken in terms)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1812, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Political Register, volume 21, page 773:",
          "text": "[…] while Mr. Elliot and Lord Milton and Mr. Ward, three of your party, stood foremost in the ranks to oppose the motion, and to speak in terms the most contumelious of the claims of the reformers […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To speak plainly."
      ],
      "id": "en-speak_in_terms-en-verb-1Y2m8vho",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) To speak plainly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "speak in terms"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "speaks in terms",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "speaking in terms",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoke in terms",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoken in terms",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "speak<,,spoke,spoken> in terms"
      },
      "expansion": "speak in terms (third-person singular simple present speaks in terms, present participle speaking in terms, simple past spoke in terms, past participle spoken in terms)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1812, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Political Register, volume 21, page 773:",
          "text": "[…] while Mr. Elliot and Lord Milton and Mr. Ward, three of your party, stood foremost in the ranks to oppose the motion, and to speak in terms the most contumelious of the claims of the reformers […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To speak plainly."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) To speak plainly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "speak in terms"
}