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REDE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give advice to

Example:

The lawyer counselled me when I was accused of tax fraud

Synonyms:

advise; counsel; rede

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "rede" is one way to...):

discuss; hash out; talk over (speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rede"):

exhort; press; urge; urge on (force or impel in an indicated direction)

deter; dissuade (turn away from by persuasion)

admonish; discourage; monish; warn (advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior)

tip; tip off (give insider information or advise to)

misadvise; misguide (give bad advice to)

propound (put forward, as of an idea)

consult (advise professionally)

contraindicate (make a treatment inadvisable)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give an interpretation or explanation to

Synonyms:

interpret; rede

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "rede" is one way to...):

explain; explicate (make plain and comprehensible)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rede"):

moralise; moralize (interpret the moral meaning of)

deconstruct (interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing)

re-explain; reinterpret (interpret from a different viewpoint)

commentate (serve as a commentator, as in sportscasting)

misinterpret (interpret falsely)

annotate; comment; gloss (provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases)

commentate (make a commentary on)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

“Gramercy for your rede, young sir!” she said, with a little curtsey.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By St. Paul! most worthy mayor, my old friend is a perilous man, and I rede you that you compose your difference with him on such terms as you may.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But it is, as you may think, sir, a very pleasant thing for me to hear that you are grieved at what you have done, and I can but rede that we should go back together, and you should make your peace with the Socman by handing back your prisoner.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It is an old bowyer's rede that the second feather of a fenny goose is better than the pinion of a tame one. Draw on old lad, for I have come between you and the clout.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Do you keep your spoon in your own broth. I rede you to go on your way, lest worse befall you. This little wench has come with me and with me she shall bide.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her foot is on the very lintel of the church, and yet he bars the way—and she, she thinks no more of the wise words and holy rede of the lady abbess, but she hath given a sobbing cry and hath fallen forward with his arms around her drooping body and her wet cheek upon his breast.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)