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arreede

arreede is the obsolete spelling of aread.

Meaning of aread

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To soothsay, prophesy.
  2. (obsolete) To interpret; to explain.
    • Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case.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....
  3. (obsolete) To advise, counsel.
    • Me, all too meane, the ſacred Muſe areeds
      To blazon broad emongſt her learned throng:1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 1

Forms of arreede

third-person singular presentarreedes
present participlearreeding
past participlearred
pastarred

Questions about arreede

What is arreede the obsolete spelling of?
Arreede is the obsolete spelling of aread.

Words near arreede in the dictionary

  1. arrectores pilorum
  2. arrects
  3. arred
  4. Arredondo
  5. Arredondos
  6. arreede
  7. Arreguin
  8. Arreguins
  9. Arrellano
  10. Arrellanos
  11. arrendator

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arreede (page history and authors); aread (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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