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rǽdere

  • noun [ masculine ]
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rǽdere, es; m.
a reader, one who reads
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  • Rǽdere

    lector,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 72, 6 : Ælfc. Gr. 9, 21; Som. 10, 40.
  • Be ðære wucan rǽdere (rédere,

      7, 23).
    Gebróðra gereorde ne sceal beón bútan háligre rǽdinge. Ne nán ne gedyrstlǽce, ðæt hé fǽrlíce bóc gelæcce and ðǽr bútan foresceáwunge onginne tó rǽdenne, ac ðære wucan rǽdere on ðone Sunnandæg mid bletsunge hit beginne ... Nánes mannes stefn gehýred ne sý bútan ðæs rǽderes ánes, R. Ben. 62, 2-15.
a reader, scholar
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  • Swá swá ða geleáfullan rǽderas hit gesetton,

      Lchdm. iii. 256, 21.
a reader, lector, the second of the seven orders
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  • Seofon hádas syndon gesette on cyrcan . . . óðer is lector ....

    Lector

    is rǽdere, ðe rǽd on Godes cyrcan, and biþ ðǽrtó gehádod ðæt hé bodige Godes word,
      L. Ælfc. C. 10-12; Th. ii. 346, 25-32.
  • Rédere réderes forlonge foreboderes ł ceigeras fruma from wítgum ðǽm is gecuoedin ceig

    lector; lectores dudum praecones vel clamatores, initium a prophetis, quibus dicitur, Clama,

      Rtl. 194, 1-4.
a reader of riddles, a diviner (v. rǽdan, VI a)
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  • Wiccum, fram rǽderum

    pythonibus,

      Hpt. Gl. 504, 67,
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v. bóc-rǽdere.
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  • rǽdere, n.