2. Verb. (third-person singular of read) ¹
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Definition of Reads
1. read [v] - See also: read
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reads
Literary usage of Reads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Fl reads On this, by a misprint, corrected in the errata, but repeated in F2.
... So Fl ; F2 reads the ample. 925. Pomp. F2 has a colon after this word : Fl ..."
2. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1912)
"... has remained standing whilst Duke reads. ^The words "three" or "four" can be
omitted unless there is a crowd. ..."
3. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... the nation's character, One man reads Milton, forty —. The cafe is plain, the
temper of the time, One wrote the lewd, ..."
4. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"The edition of 1619 reads " rampant." The amended play agrees with our text. ...
The amended play reads:— " Which sounded like a cannon in a vault. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The second prayer reads: "O God, who didst guide Abraham safely through all the
ways of his journey from Ur of the Chaldeans. ..." III. ..."
6. Proceedings [of] the Constitutional Convention by Massachusetts Constitutional Convention (1904)
"Mr. Mack reads second section of resolution No. 81 —"The amendment to Sec.
26 of general laws"—and states that the committee recommends that this be not ..."
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