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
"There sprang the violet all newe, And fresh periwinkle, rich of hewe, And flowers yellow, white and rede, Such plenty grew there nor in the mede."
From Garden-Craft Old and New by John D. Sedding
“Well, then, your dog dined with me and did not pay: so I have, following your own rede, taken his best and his only coat.”
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
Wouldst thou that I should read thy rede for thee?”
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
Child, then thou canst not help but believe in thy rede.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
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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