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
As who list to rede may finde plentifully inoughe written thereof.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
Unfold it, and let me read the rede.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster
Egwina will have naught more to do with runes or rede.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster
“The device of Margaret of Anjou, Queen of Henry VI, was a daisy, in allusion to her name: ‘The daise a floure white and rede, In French called la belle Margarete.’
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
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 Jusserand, J. J.
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