aread

• arread
• areed
• arede

Old English arēdan, arǣdan, corresponding to a- +‎ read. Cognate with German erraten.

aread (third-person singular simple present areads, present participle areading, simple past and past participle ared)

1. (obsolete) To soothsay, prophesy. [11th-17th c.]
2. (obsolete) To interpret; to explain. [11th-19th c.]
   • Spenser

     Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case.

3. (obsolete) To advise, counsel. [16th-17th c.]
   • 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!