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arread

arread verb: to declare; tell; interpret; explain.

Verb

arread (third-person singular simple present arreads, present participle arreading, simple past and past participle arread)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To declare; tell; interpret; explain.
    • But mark what I arread thee now. Avaunt; …1808, The cabinet of poetry
    • 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
  2. (archaic, transitive) To 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. (archaic, transitive) To guess; conjecture.
    • Soldier, I come. But, ere we part, I will arread thy doom, Proud ruthless woman!1831, Henry Rich, The daughter of Herodias
    • Now, good Christe arread, and gesse whoe gaue thee the buffet?1872, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Miscellanies of The Fuller Worthies' Library
  4. (archaic, transitive) To read.
    • You arread me aright.1971, James T. Boulton, Samuel Johnson's Taxation No Tyranny

Noun

arread

  1. Advice; discourse; narration.

Forms of arread

third-person singular presentarreads
present participlearreading
past participlearread
pastarread
alternative formarreed
alternative formaread
alternative formareed
alternative formarede

Origin of arread

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”).

Questions about arread

What does arread mean?
Arread means to declare; tell; interpret; explain.
What part of speech is arread?
Arread can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of arread?
The past tense of arread is arread.

Words near arread in the dictionary

  1. arrayment
  2. arrayments
  3. arrays
  4. Arrazola
  5. Arrazolas
  6. arread
  7. arreading
  8. arreads
  9. Arreaga
  10. Arreagas
  11. arrear

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