rede

American  

[reed] / rid /

verb (used with object)

reded, reding

1. to counsel; advise.

2. to explain.

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noun

1. counsel; advice.

2. a plan; scheme.

3. a tale; story.

rede British  

/ riːd /

noun

1. advice or counsel

2. an explanation

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verb

1. to advise; counsel

2. 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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rede reding

Recks not his own rede becomes Minds not his own creed.

From Time Magazine Archive

“An thou be afear’d, thou Little John, At home I rede thee be.”

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power

"O wae is me, my lord," she says, "To hear you say sic wrang;150 It can be nane but your auld lemman; God rede whare she will gang!"

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

Here, then, is a riddle, and Marx sets himself to rede it.

From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

The Wildgrave spurred his ardent steed, And, launching forward with a bound, "Who, for thy drowsy priestlike rede, Would leave the jovial horn and hound?"

From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various

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