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verb

Read v. t. (past & past part. read; pres. part. reading)

To advise; to counsel. (Obs.) See Rede. "Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine."

To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.

To tell; to declare; to recite. (Obs.) "But read how art thou named, and of what kin."

To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book. "Redeth (read ye) the great poet of Itaille." "Well could he rede a lesson or a story."

Hence, to know fully; to comprehend. "Who is't can read a woman?"

To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation. "An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read great magnanimity." "Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor."

To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.

To read one's self in, to read aloud the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent, required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice.

Read v. i. (past & past part. read; pres. part. reading)

To give advice or counsel. (Obs.)

To tell; to declare. (Obs.)

To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document. "So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense."

To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.

To learn by reading. "I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence."

To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.

To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.

To read between the lines, to infer something different from what is plainly indicated; to detect the real meaning as distinguished from the apparent meaning.

Read v. Imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.

noun

Read n. Rennet. See 3d Reed. (Prov. Eng.)

Read n.

Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede. (Obs.)

Reading. (Colloq.) "One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read."

adjective

Read adj. Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned. "A poet... well read in Longinus."

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Etymology of 'Read'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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