Verb

(en verb)

To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.

* The Holy Bible, (w) i. 23.

Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

* The Holy Bible, (w) xli. 8.

And Pharaoh told them his dreams; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.

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To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape.

To act as an interpreter.

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!