Read (r&ebreve;d),
a. Instructed or knowing by
reading; versed in books; learned.
A poet . . . well read in Longinus.
Addison.
Read (r&ebreve;d),
imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.
Read , n. [AS. r&aemacr;d counsel, fr. r&aemacr;dan to counsel. See Read, v. t.]
1.
Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede. [Obs.]
2. [Read, v.]
Reading. [Colloq.] Hume.
One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read.
Furnivall.
Read , v. i. 1. To
give advice or counsel. [Obs.]
2. To tell; to declare. [Obs.] Spenser.
3. 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.
Neh. viii. 8.
4. To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
5. To learn by reading.
I have read of an
Eastern king who put a judge to death for an
iniquitous sentence.
Swift. 6. 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.
7. 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 (rēd),
v. t. [imp. & p. p. Read (r&ebreve;d); p. pr. & vb. n. Reading.]
[OE. reden, ræden, AS. r&aemacr;dan to read, advise, counsel, fr. r&aemacr;d advice, counsel, r&aemacr;dan (imperf.
reord) to advise, counsel, guess; akin to D.
raden to advise, G. raten, rathen, Icel. rāða, Goth. rēdan (in comp.), and perh. also to Skr. rādh to succeed. √116. Cf. Riddle.] 1. To advise; to
counsel. [Obs.] See
Rede.
Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine.
Tyndale.
2. To interpret; to explain; as, to read a
riddle.
3. To tell; to declare; to recite. [Obs.]
But read how art thou
named, and of what kin.
Spenser. 4. 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.
Chaucer. Well could he
rede a lesson or a story.
Chaucer.
5. Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
Who is't can read a woman?
Shak. 6. 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.
Spenser.
Those about her
From her shall read the perfect ways of honor.
Shak. 7. 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 (rēd),
n. Rennet. See 3d Reed. [Prov. Eng.]
Hear it pronounced