Aread vs Arread - What's the difference?

aread | arread |

As verbs the difference between aread and arread

is that aread is (obsolete) to soothsay, prophesy while arread is to declare; tell; interpret; explain.

As a noun arread is

advice; discourse; narration.

aread

English

Alternative forms

* *areed *arede

Verb

(obsolete) To soothsay, prophesy.

(obsolete) To interpret; to explain.

* Spenser

Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case.

(obsolete) To advise, counsel.

*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.1:

*:Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds / To blazon broade emongst her learned throng [...].

* Milton

But mark what I aread thee now. Avaunt!

arread

English

Alternative forms

Verb

To declare; tell; interpret; explain.

*1808 , The cabinet of poetry:

But mark what I arread thee now. Avaunt; [...]

*1822 , The Works of the British poets, with lives of the authors - Volume 34 - Page 144:

His hall resounds!?amaz'd the stranger wight Arreads it all as done to him in fell despight.

*1825 , William Hazlitt, Select poets of Great Britain :

Nothing but mirth can conquer fortune's spite; No sky is heavy, if the heart be light: Patience is sorrow's salve; what can't be cur'd, So Donald right arreads , must be endur'd.

To counsel; advise; direct; teach.

*1850 , William Hamilton (of Bangour), The poems and songs of William Hamilton of Bangour :

My tongue shall speak but what my heart arreads , Nor varnish use to blacken more thy deeds; [...]

To guess; conjecture.

*1831 , Henry Rich, The daughter of Herodias :

Soldier, I come. But, ere we part, I will arread thy doom, Proud ruthless woman!

*1872 , Alexander Balloch Grosart, Miscellanies of The Fuller Worthies' Library :

Now, good Christe arread , and gesse whoe gaue thee the buffet?

To read.

*1971 , James T. Boulton, Samuel Johnson's Taxation No Tyranny :

You arread me aright.

Noun

(en noun)

Advice; discourse; narration.

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