Therefore, I read thee, get to God's word, and
thereby try all doctrine. --Tyndale.
2. To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
3. To tell; to declare; to recite. [Obs.]
But read how art thou named, and of what kin.
--Spenser.
4. To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or
recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of,
as of language, by interpreting the characters with which
it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to
read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read
the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.
Redeth [read ye] the great poet of Itaille.
--Chaucer.
Well could he rede a lesson or a story. --Chaucer.
5. Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
Who is't can read a woman? --Shak.
6. To discover or understand by characters, marks, features,
etc.; to learn by observation.
An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read
great magnanimity. --Spenser.
Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways
of honor. --Shak.
7. To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as,
to read theology or law.
{To read one's self in}, to read about the Thirty-nine
Articles and the Declaration of Assent, -- required of a
clergyman of the Church of England when he first
officiates in a new benefice.
2. [{Read}, v.] Reading. [Colloq.] --Hume.
One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a
read. --Furnivall.
A poet . . . well read in Longinus. --Addison.
2. To tell; to declare. [Obs.] --Spenser.
3. To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over
and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like
document.
So they read in the book of the law of God
distinctly, and gave the sense. --Neh. viii.
8.
4. To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to
death for an iniquitous sentence. --Swift.
6. To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or
consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage
reads thus in the early manuscripts.
7. To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence
reads queerly.
{To read between the lines}, to infer something different
from what is plainly indicated; to detect the real meaning
as distinguished from the apparent meaning.