- OE. redenræden, AS. rǣdan to read, advise, counsel, fr. rǣd advice, counsel, rǣdanimperf. reord) to advise, counsel, guess; akin to D. raden to advise, G. ratenrathen, Icel. rāða, Goth. rēdanin comp.), and perh. also to Skr. rādh to succeed. √116. Cf. Riddle
- To advise; to counsel.ObsSee Rede.Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine.
- To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
- To tell; to declare; to recite.ObsBut read how art thou named, and of what kin.
- To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.Redethread ye] the great poet of Itaille.Well could he rede a lesson or a story.
- Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.Who is't can read a woman?
- To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read great magnanimity.Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor.
- To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
