English

Verb

beread ‎(third-person singular simple present bereads, present participle bereading, simple past and past participle beread)

1. Alternative form of berede
2. (transitive) To advise; inform; counsel; plan; (reflexive) to advise or bethink oneself; deliberate.
   • 1852, Jean Palsgrave, François Génin, L'éclaircissement de la langue française par Jean Palsgrave, original publication 1530:

     I berede me, I take advyse or counsayle... I wyll berede me first, and than you shall have your answere.

   • 1923, Blanche Colton Williams, Harry Hansen, Society of Arts and Sciences (U.S.), O. Henry memorial award prize stories:

     And when the time hung with a heaviness I beread me of them.

   • 2005, Andrea Cornwall, International African Institute, Readings in gender in Africa:

     When I received the telegram, I have to go in order to beread him, I return on Saturday 2/1/48.