aread

present singular third person areads · participle present areading · participle past ared · past ared · alternative arread · alternative areed · alternative arede · alternative arreede

1. obsoleteTo soothsay, prophesy.First known use 11th–17th c.
2. obsoleteTo interpret; to explain.First known use 11th–19th c.

   Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case.

   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

3. obsoleteTo advise, counsel.First known use 16th–17th c.

   But mark what I arreede thee now, avant;

   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

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   Me, all too meane, the ſacred Muſe areeds To blazon broad emongſt her learned throng:

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 1