backread

present singular third person backreads · participle present backreading

1. InternetespeciallyIRCTo catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.
   1. InternetbroadlyespeciallyIRCTo read conversations one was not present for.
2. To interpret what one has read previously in the light of later experience or knowledge.

   Thereafter, Freud was obliged not only to expand but to backread that expansion into all that came before.

   1980, Diana Hume George, Blake and Freud

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   What must be recognized is the nature of the source material in which one sees a theological/ideological backreading of history.

   2001, Andrew Rippin, Muslims: their religious beliefs and practices