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Rete vs Rede - What's the difference?

rete | rede |

As a verb rete

is .

As a noun rede is

speech.

rete

English

Noun

(retia)
  • (anatomy) A network of blood vessels or nerves.
  • An anatomical part resembling or including a network.
  • Anagrams

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    rede

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) Help, advice, counsel.
  • * 1603 , William Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", Act 1, Scene 3:
  • 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.
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , vol. 1:
  • When the Bull heard these words he knew the Ass to be his friend and thanked him, saying, "Right is thy rede "
  • * 1954 , JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers :
  • ‘Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun.’
  • (archaic) Decision, a plan.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) reden, . More at (l).

    Verb

  • To govern, protect.
  • To discuss, deliberate.
  • To advise.
  • :(Chaucer)
  • *:
  • *: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 .
  • Derived terms
    * (l)

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