Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To give advice to; counsel.
- transitive verb To interpret; explain.
- noun Advice or counsel.
- noun A narration.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
read . - An obsolete form of
red . - An obsolete variant of
ready . - An obsolete form of red.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Obs. or Scot. To advise or counsel.
- transitive verb obsolete To interpret; to explain.
- noun Obs. or Scot. Advice; counsel; suggestion.
- noun obsolete A word or phrase; a motto; a proverb; a wise saw.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic
Help ,advice ,counsel . - noun archaic
Decision , aplan . - verb transitive To
govern ,protect . - verb transitive To
discuss ,deliberate . - verb transitive To
advise . - verb transitive To
interpret (a riddle or dream);explain
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give an interpretation or explanation to
- verb give advice to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Quoth she, My rede is that thou fillet thy head and feign thyself sick; then send for the
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And the clerk said, “Thy words are apposite and thy rede is right.”
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And quoth one of them, My rede is that we speak to Merchant
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Allah,” said they all, “this rede is a right;” and we agreed upon this, and set about carrying it out.
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218 “Thy rede is aright,” quoth the King, and seeking his treasury, he took thence a piece of concentrated Bhang, if an elephant smelt it he would sleep from year to year.
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When Taj al-Muluk heard these words, he said, ‘This rede is right and a right pleasant recking.
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Replied the King, “This rede is right, for indeed the folk weary for a sight of their families, and I am an other who is also troubled with yearning after my son Kanmakan and my brother ‘s daughter Kuzia Fakan, for she is in Damascus and I know not how is her case.”
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"Adherence to 10 basic rules will go a long way toward ensuring a successful and mutually bene fi cial out - sourcing relationship," Clifford F. Lynch, executive vice president of Conti - nental Group (Memphis, Tenn.; clif fl @continental-traf fi c. com) counseled at the CLM Annual Conference titled rede fi ninglogistics. com.
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I LOVE how do you call this on your kids are lay down? here in brazil we called "rede" but i don't know the name in english!!
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I have now for the first time brought my "rede" into use, and find it very comfortable.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
fbharjo commented on the word rede
rede give advice
January 22, 2007