aread
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English arēdan, arǣdan, corresponding to a- + read. Cognate with German erraten.
Verb
[edit]aread (third-person singular simple present areads, present participle areading, simple past and past participle ared)
- (obsolete) To soothsay, prophesy. [11th–17th c.]
- (obsolete) To interpret; to explain. [11th–19th c.]
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard,Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier. […], London: […] [Thomas Orwin] for William Ponsonby, […], →OCLC:
- Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case.
- (obsolete) To advise, counsel. [16th–17th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 1:
- Me, all too meane, the ſacred Muſe areeds
To blazon broad emongſt her learned throng:
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 963:
- But mark what I arreede thee now, avant;