rede
Americanverb (used with object)
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to counsel; advise.
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to explain.
noun
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counsel; advice.
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a plan; scheme.
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a tale; story.
noun
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advice or counsel
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an explanation
verb
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to advise; counsel
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to explain
Etymology
Origin of rede
before 900; (v.) Middle English reden, Old English rǣdan; (noun) Middle English; Old English rǣd, cognate with Old Frisian rēd, Old Saxon rād, Old Norse rāth; see read 1, ready
Example Sentences
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Recks not his own rede becomes Minds not his own creed.
From Time Magazine Archive
For one thing, he would be wasting precious time he could not afford to lose; again, now that fighting power was coming back to him, he must run his rede, must prepare to outface destiny.
From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith
Such rede will be welcome to thee as water to thy shoes!
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
"Gramercy for thy rede, curé," cried the great man, reproachfully.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
If youre chylde can rede and wryte Latyn and Englyshe suffycyently, so that he be able to rede and wryte his own lessons, then he shal be admitted into the schole for a scholar.
From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by W. Carew Hazlitt
Who is it that reding Bevis of Hampton, can forbeare laughing, if he marke what scambling shyft he makes to end his verses a like?
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by J. J. Jusserand
Examples of it are xliii greting, 166, dreping, i.e. slaughter, 2684, buttinge, skirming, wrastling, putting, harping, piping, reding; see ll. 2322-2327.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
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