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

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

From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

"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

Rememberest thou that time we went through the forest to have her read thy rede for thee?

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison

For of the gretè clerk Grostest I rede how busy that he was Upon the clergie an head of brass To forgè; and make it fortelle Of suchè thingès as befelle.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

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

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