arread

present singular third person arreads · participle present arreading · alternative arreed · alternative aread · alternative areed · alternative arede

1. archaictransitiveTo declare; tell; interpret; explain.

   But mark what I arread thee now. Avaunt; …

   1808, The cabinet of poetry

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   His hall resounds!―amaz'd the stranger wight Arreads it all as done to him in fell despight.

   1822, The Works of the British poets, with lives of the authors - Volume 34 - Page 144

   Nothing but mirth can conquer fortune's spite; No sky is heavy, if the heart be light: Patience is sorrow's salve; what can't be cur'd, So Donald right arreads, must be endur'd.

   1825, William Hazlitt, Select poets of Great Britain

2. archaictransitiveTo counsel; advise; direct; teach.

   My tongue shall speak but what my heart arreads, Nor varnish use to blacken more thy deeds; …

   1850, William Hamilton (of Bangour), The poems and songs of William Hamilton of Bangour

3. archaictransitiveTo guess; conjecture.

   Now, good Christe arread, and gesse whoe gaue thee the buffet?

   1872, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Miscellanies of The Fuller Worthies' Library

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   Soldier, I come. But, ere we part, I will arread thy doom, Proud ruthless woman!

   1831, Henry Rich, The daughter of Herodias

4. archaictransitiveTo read.

   You arread me aright.

   1971, James T. Boulton, Samuel Johnson's Taxation No Tyranny

alternative arreed · alternative aread · alternative areed · alternative arede

1. Advice; discourse; narration.