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Read  v. t.  (past & past part. read; pres. part. reading)  
1.
To advise; to counsel. (Obs.) See Rede. "Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine."
2.
To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
3.
To tell; to declare; to recite. (Obs.) "But read how art thou named, and of what kin."
4.
To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book. "Redeth (read ye) the great poet of Itaille." "Well could he rede a lesson or a story."
5.
Hence, to know fully; to comprehend. "Who is't can read a woman?"
6.
To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation. "An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read great magnanimity." "Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor."
7.
To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
To read one's self in, to read aloud the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent, required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice.


Read  v. i.  (past & past part. read; pres. part. reading)  
1.
To give advice or counsel. (Obs.)
2.
To tell; to declare. (Obs.)
3.
To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document. "So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense."
4.
To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
5.
To learn by reading. "I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence."
6.
To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.
7.
To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.
To read between the lines, to infer something different from what is plainly indicated; to detect the real meaning as distinguished from the apparent meaning.


Read  v.  Imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.


noun
Read  n.  Rennet. See 3d Reed. (Prov. Eng.)


Read  n.  
1.
Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede. (Obs.)
2.
Reading. (Colloq.) "One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read."


adjective
Read  adj.  Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned. "A poet... well read in Longinus."





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... supreme and inmost sense treats of the Lord, of His kingdom in the heavens and on earth, and of love and faith from Him and towards Him, consequently of life from Him and in Him. Such things are exhibited to the angels in heaven when the Word of our Earth is read ...
— Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There • Emanuel Swedenborg
... assistant engineer motive power department, Pennsylvania Railroad. Read at a regular meeting of the New York Railroad ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 • Various
... suggestion of hostility on the part of the Treasury, were determined that Secretary Chase should take open ground. The embarrassment was relieved by a letter from the Secretary to the Committee of Ways and Means, dated Jan. 29, and read in the House on the 4th of February by Mr. Spaulding. The letter had great influence on Congress. Without it, the measure would probably have ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine
... Elinor's grandfather, was decidedly a clever man. He had held a high position, in his profession, until he withdrew from it, and had, at one time, honourably distinguished himself as a politician. He was well educated, and well read; his library, at Wyllys-Roof, was, indeed, one of the best in the country. Moreover, Mr. Wyllys was a philosopher, a member of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia; and the papers he read, before that honourable association, were generally much admired by his audience. It is even ...
— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper
... and sitting down again]. Yes, yes, of course; but have you no knowledge of the causes of the war? of the interests at stake? of the importance—I may almost say—in fact I will say—the sacred right for which we are fighting? Don't you read the papers? ...
— O'Flaherty V. C. • George Bernard Shaw


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