Rede vs Ree - What's the difference?
rede | ree |
(archaic) Help, advice, counsel.
* 1603 , William Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", Act 1, Scene 3:
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , vol. 1:
* 1954 , JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers :
(archaic) Decision, a plan.
To govern, protect.
To discuss, deliberate.
To advise.
:(Chaucer)
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*:The meane whyle his squyer founde wryten vpon the crosse that Bagdemagus shold neuer retorne vnto the Courte ageyne / tyll he had wonne a kny?tes body of the round table body for body / lo syr said his squyer / here I fynde wrytyng of yow / therfor I rede yow retorne ageyne to the Courte / that shalle I neuer said Bagdemagus
To interpret (a riddle or dream); explain.
:(Chaucer)
*1836 , (Thomas Carlyle), (Sartor Resartus)
*:The secret of Man's Being is still like the Sphinx's secret: a riddle that he cannot rede .
Wild; fierce; outrageous; overexcited; frenzied; delirious; crazy.
Befuddled with liquor; half-drunk; tipsy.
To become extremely excited; fly into a rage.
To drive into a state of excitement; fire with enthusiasm.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off.
As a noun rede
is speech.rede
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(-)- Ophelia:
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.
- When the Bull heard these words he knew the Ass to be his friend and thanked him, saying, "Right is thy rede "
- ‘Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun.’
Etymology 2
From (etyl) reden, . More at (l).Verb
Derived terms
* (l)Anagrams
* * * * ----ree
English
Etymology 1
Etymology 2
From (etyl) rei, reh, reoh, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l) (Scotland)Adjective
(en-adj)Verb
Etymology 3
Compare (riddle) a sieve.Verb
- (Mortimer)