Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine. Tyndale.

But read how art thou named, and of what kin. Spenser.

Redeth [read ye] the great poet of Itaille. Chaucer.

Well could he rede a lesson or a story. Chaucer.

Who is't can read a woman? Shak.

An armed corse did lie,
In whose dead face he read great magnanimity. Spenser.

Those about her
From her shall read the perfect ways of honor. Shak.

To read one's self in, to read aloud the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent, -- required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice.

So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. Neh. viii. 8.

I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence. Swift.

To read between the lines, to infer something different from what is plainly indicated; to detect the real meaning as distinguished from the apparent meaning.

One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read. Furnivall.

A poet . . . well read in Longinus. Addison.