Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete preterit of
read .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. of
read ,rede .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete Past participle of
read - verb obsolete Past participle of
rede
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Examples
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And when his wife saw he would "never fyne" to read "this cursed book al night," all suddenly she plucked three leaves out of it, "right as he radde," and with her fist so took him on the cheek that he fell "bakward adoun" in the fire.
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911
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In that booke he radde pryuely in the under tydes, therefor unnethe the clerkes of his chirche would suffre him be buryed under heuene without hooly chirche, "_Polychronicon: Caxton's edit. _, sign.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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