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  • verb archaic second person singular, present tense of read

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Examples

  • He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • All thy phlegm I know will be roused into vengeance when thou readest it.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Thy presence, perhaps, thou hardened wretch, might have made us ashamed of a weakness which perhaps thou wilt deride me in particular for, when thou readest this! — —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • So, when thou readest in Homer of gods thrown out of heaven headlong one by another, or gods wounded by men and quarrelling and brawling with each other, thou mayest readily, if thou wilt, say to him, —

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

    Luke 10. 1999

  • And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Isaiah, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

    Acts 8. 1999

  • Observe again, whosoever readest this; behold, what Scripture delivers, and the voice pronounces one only way, In the Beginning God created heaven and earth; is it not understood manifoldly, not through any deceit of error, but by various kinds of true senses?

    The Confessions 1999

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