arreadとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From earlier aread, arede, from 中期英語 areden, from 古期英語 ārǣdan, ārēdan (“to appoint, prepare; arrange, settle, decide; guess, prophesy, interpret, utter; read, read out, read to”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀrādan, from Proto-Germanic *uzrēdaną (“to guess”), equivalent to a- +‎ read or a- +‎ rede. Cognate with German erraten (“to guess”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌳𐌰𐌽 (urrēdan, “to contrive, discriminate”).

動詞

arread (third-person singular simple present arreads, present participle arreading, simple past and past participle arread)

1. (archaic, transitive) To declare; tell; interpret; explain.
   • 1808, The cabinet of poetry:

     But mark what I arread thee now. Avaunt; [...]

   • 1822, The Works of the British poets, with lives of the authors - Volume 34 - Page 144:

     His hall resounds!―amaz'd the stranger wight Arreads it all as done to him in fell despight.

   • 1825, William Hazlitt, Select poets of Great Britain:

     Nothing but mirth can conquer fortune's spite; No sky is heavy, if the heart be light: Patience is sorrow's salve; what can't be cur'd, So Donald right arreads, must be endur'd.

2. (archaic, transitive) To counsel; advise; direct; teach.
   • 1850, William Hamilton (of Bangour), The poems and songs of William Hamilton of Bangour:

     My tongue shall speak but what my heart arreads, Nor varnish use to blacken more thy deeds; [...]

3. (archaic, transitive) To guess; conjecture.
   • 1831, Henry Rich, The daughter of Herodias:

     Soldier, I come. But, ere we part, I will arread thy doom, Proud ruthless woman!

   • 1872, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Miscellanies of The Fuller Worthies' Library:

     Now, good Christe arread, and gesse whoe gaue thee the buffet?

4. (archaic, transitive) To read.
   • 1971, James T. Boulton, Samuel Johnson's Taxation No Tyranny:

     You arread me aright.

名詞

arread

1. Advice; discourse; narration.