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Arread
Definitions
- 1 Advice; discourse; narration.
- 1 To declare; tell; interpret; explain. archaic, transitive
"But mark what I arread thee now. Avaunt; …"
- 2 To counsel; advise; direct; teach. archaic, transitive
"My tongue shall speak but what my heart arreads, Nor varnish use to blacken more thy deeds; …"
- 3 To guess; conjecture. archaic, transitive
"Soldier, I come. But, ere we part, I will arread thy doom, Proud ruthless woman!"
- 4 To read. archaic, transitive
"You arread me aright."
Etymology
From earlier aread, arede, from Middle English areden, from Old English ārǣdan, ārēdan (“to appoint, prepare; arrange, settle, decide; guess, prophesy, interpret, utter; read, read out, read to”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀrādan, from Proto-Germanic *uzrēdaną (“to guess”), equivalent to a- + read or a- + rede. Cognate with German erraten (“to guess”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌳𐌰𐌽 (urrēdan, “to contrive, discriminate”).
From earlier aread, arede, from Middle English areden, from Old English ārǣdan, ārēdan (“to appoint, prepare; arrange, settle, decide; guess, prophesy, interpret, utter; read, read out, read to”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀrādan, from Proto-Germanic *uzrēdaną (“to guess”), equivalent to a- + read or a- + rede. Cognate with German erraten (“to guess”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌳𐌰𐌽 (urrēdan, “to contrive, discriminate”).
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