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Arrear vs Arread - What's the difference?

arrear | arread |

As nouns the difference between arrear and arread

is that arrear is work to be done, obligation while arread is advice; discourse; narration.

As an adverb arrear

is towards the rear, backwards.

As a verb arread is

to declare; tell; interpret; explain.

arrear

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • (obsolete) Towards the rear, backwards.
  • * 1591 , Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat , ll. 465-8:
    • She, (Ladie) having well before approoved / The feends to be too cruell and severe, / Observ'd th' appointed way, as her behooved, / Ne ever did her ey-sight turne arere [...].
  • (obsolete) Behind time; overdue.
  • * 1803 , Edward Hyde East, Reports of cases Argued and determined in the Court of King's Bench , London 1814, vol. 3, p. 559:
    • In case the annuity should be arrear for sixty days being lawfully demanded, then the trustee might enter upon the premises assigned [...].

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Work to be done, obligation.
    • I have a large arrear of letters to write. -- J. D. Forbes.
    My own work, with its manifold arrears , took me all day to clear off. -- Stoker, Dracula
  • Unpaid debt.

    • arread

    English

    Alternative forms

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    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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