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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

rede reding

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I rede, my noble master take leave and forward go.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Lose not your advantage; if you do, I rede your destiney.

From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt

"Now he is parted from me, he will maybe listen to my rede," said he; "poor wretch he loves not solitude."

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade

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

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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