aread

• arread, areed, arede, arreede

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

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

1. (obsolete) To soothsay, prophesy. [11th–17th c.]
2. (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.

3. (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], […], →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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