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. Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of
extensive reading.
3. A lecture or prelection; public recital.
The Jews had their weekly readings of the law.
--Hooker.
4. The way in which anything reads; force of a word or
passage presented by a documentary authority; lection;
version.
5. Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of
rendering. [Cant]
6. An observation read from the scale of a graduated
instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.
{Reading of a bill} (Legislation), its normal recital, by the
proper officer, before the House which is to consider it.
2. Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.
{Reading book}, a book for teaching reading; a reader.
{Reading desk}, a desk to support a book while reading; esp.,
a desk used while reading the service in a church.
{Reading glass}, a large lens with more or less magnifying
power, attached to a handle, and used in reading, etc.
{Reading man}, one who reads much; hence, in the English
universities, a close, industrious student.
{Reading room}, a room appropriated to reading; a room
provided with papers, periodicals, and the like, to which
persons resort.