aread

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English

Alternative forms

arread, areed, arede, arreede

Etymology

From Old English arēdan, arǣdan, corresponding to a- +‎ read. Cognate with German erraten.

Verb

aread (third-person singular simple present areads, present participle areading, simple past and past participle ared)

(obsolete) To soothsay, prophesy.
(obsolete) To interpret; to explain.
- 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: for William Ponsonby, , →OCLC:
  Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case.
(obsolete) To advise, counsel.
- 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 ; nd by Robert Boulter ; 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;

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