Definitions
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- verb transitive To
declare ;tell ;interpret ;explain . - verb transitive To
counsel ;advise ;direct ;teach . - verb transitive To
guess ;conjecture . - verb transitive To
read . - noun
Advice ;discourse ;narration .
Etymologies
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From earlier aread, arede, from Middle English areden, from Old English ārēdan, ārǣdan ("to appoint, prepare; arrange, settle, decide; guess, prophesy, interpret, utter; read, read out, read to"), from Proto-Germanic *uzrēdanan (“to guess”), equivalent to a- + read. Cognate with German erraten ("to guess"), Gothic (urrēdan, "to contrive, discriminate").
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