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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.
noun Reading n. 1.The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read. 2.Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading. 3.A lecture or prelection; public recital. "The Jews had their weekly readings of the law." 4.The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version. 5.Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering. (Cant) 6.An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer. Reading of a bill (Legislation), its formal recital, by the proper officer, before the House which is to consider it.
adjective Reading adj. 1.Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading. 2.Addicted to reading; as, a reading community. Reading book, a book for teaching reading; a reader. Reading desk, a desk to support a book while reading; esp., a desk used while reading the service in a church. Reading glass, a large lens with more or less magnifying power, attached to a handle, and used in reading, etc. Reading man, one who reads much; hence, in the English universities, a close, industrious student. Reading room, a room appropriated to reading; a room provided with papers, periodicals, and the like, to which persons resort.
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