read1 (red)

[Early mod. E. also rede; rede, IMG:content-1694.png:[blocks in formation] 5. Reading; perusal. [Colloq.] My first read of the newspaper. 21. To speak; discourse; declare; tell. Sojourned hath this Mars, of which I rede, In chambre amyd the paleys prively. Chaucer, Complaint of Mars, 1. 78. read3 (red), v. t. A dialectal form of red3. readability (rē-da-bil'i-ti), n. [ for Shak ., Hen. VIII., v. 5. 38. Let vs looke backe to Adam, who in this wicked fruit of IMG:content-1695.png:[blocks in formation] readable 3. Enabling to read; capable of being read by. [Rare.] Those who have been labouring to introduce into our railway carriages not only a good readable light, but a light generally acceptable to everyone. Elect. Rev. (Eng.), XXV. 601. readablene (rē'da-bl-nes), n . The state or character of being readable. A book remarkable for its succinctne , its vividne , and its eminent readablene . Harper's Mag ., LXXVI. 805. readably (rēʼda-bli), adv . In a readable manner; legibly. readdre (rē-a-dres'), v. t. [ IMG:content-1696.png:[blocks in formation] readeptt (re-a-dept'), v. t. [ The which Duchie if he might by their meanes readept and recover, he would never let pa e out of hys memorie so great a benifite. Hall , Edward IV., f. 25. ( Hall i well .) readeption (rē-a-dep's hon), n. [ adep tion .] A regaining; recovery of something lost. In whose begynnyng of raedepcion [ rea- ], the erle of Worcester, whiche for his cruelne e was called the bochier of Engla[n]de, was taken and put in streyght prys on. Fabyan, Chron., II. 659, an. 1570. Will any say that the readeption of Trevigi was matter of scruple? Bacon.