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verb
Read  v. t.  (past & past part. read; pres. part. reading)  
1.
To advise; to counsel. (Obs.) See Rede. "Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine."
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."
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." "Well could he rede a lesson or a story."
5.
Hence, to know fully; to comprehend. "Who is't can read a woman?"
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." "Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor."
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  v. i.  (past & past part. read; pres. part. reading)  
1.
To give advice or counsel. (Obs.)
2.
To tell; to declare. (Obs.)
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."
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."
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  v.  Imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.


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


Read  n.  
1.
Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede. (Obs.)
2.
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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— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce
... Echizen, Hikone, and other loyal clans. After a battle which lasted several days, and which raged chiefly about the imperial palace, the Choshu troops were completely defeated and forced to retire. It gives us an idea of the terrible earnestness of these Japanese warriors to read how a little remnant of the Choshu troops took refuge on Tennozan; and when they heard their pursuers approaching, how seventeen of them committed hara-kiri(302); and lest their heads should be recognized and their names disgraced, how they had thrown themselves into the ...
— Japan • David Murray
... if the story were not complete, the conclusion of the last Canto of the sixth Book, evidently the work of a later hand than Valmiki's, which speaks of Rama's glorious and happy reign and promises blessings to those who read and hear the Ramayan, would be sufficient to show that, when these verses were added, the poem was considered to be finished. The Uttarakanda or Last Book is merely an appendix or a supplement and relates only events antecedent ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI
... farmhouse where her mother died and were using one of the upstairs rooms as a 'den.' They got in through a cellar window, it seems. They were each writing a novel, and that was where they worked and read what they had written to each other. That lasted only about six weeks or so before Mr. Windom found out about it. He was terrible. You see, without knowing it, they had picked out the room that was most sacred to him. It was his wife's own room,—where she died and where Alix's ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon
... means at the command of Poliziano and his musical associates. The study of this entire matter calls for care and judgment, for it is involved in a mass of misinformation, lack of any information and ill grounded conclusions. For example, we read in a foot-note of Rolland's excellent work [18] that in March, 1518, the "Suppositi" of Ariosto was performed at the Vatican before Pope Leo with musical intermezzi. The author quotes from a letter of Pauluzo, envoy of the ...
— Some Forerunners of Italian Opera • William James Henderson


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