Reading

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.

(2): ( a.) Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.

(3): ( n.) The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.

(4): ( n.) Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.

(5): ( n.) A lecture or prelection; public recital.

(6): ( p. pr. & vb. n.) of Read

(7): ( n.) Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.

(8): ( a.) Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.

(9): ( n.) An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.

King James Dictionary

RE'ADING, ppr.

1. Pronouncing or perusing written or printed words or characters of a book or writing. 2. Discovering by marks understanding.

RE'ADING, n.

1. The act of reading perusal. 2. Study of books as a man of extensive reading. 3. A lecture or prelection. 4. Public recital.

The Jews had their weekly readings of the law.

5. In criticism, the manner of reading the manuscripts of ancient authors, where the words or letters are obscure. No small part of the business of critics is to settle the true reading, or real words used by the author and the various readings of different critics are often perplexing. 6. A commentary or gloss on a law, text or passage. 7. In legislation, the formal recital of a bill by the proper officer, before the house which is to consider it. In Congress and in the state legislatures, a bill must usually have three several readings on different days, before it can be passed into a law.

Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

In the countries of the Levant the people never read silently, but go on in a kind of singing voice, aloud. The eunuch was probably thus reading when Philip overheard him, and finding that he was reading the Scriptures, said, "Understandest thou what thou readest?"

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

Reading —See artt. Boyhood in vol. i. p. 222b, Education, Reader.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

rēd´ing ( מקרא , miḳrā'  ; ἀνάγνωσις , anágnōsis ): As a noun occurs once in the Old Testament (  Nehemiah 3:8 ) and 3 times in the New Testament ( Acts 13:15;  2 Corinthians 3:14;  1 Timothy 4:13 ), each time with reference to the public reading of the Divine Law. The verb "to read" (קרא , ḳārā'  ; ἀναγινώσκω , anaginṓskō ) occurs frequently both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament: (1) often in the sense of reading aloud to others , especially of the public reading of God's Law or of prophecy, as by Moses ( Exodus 24:7 ), Ezra ( Nehemiah 8:3 ,  Nehemiah 8:18 ), Jesus in the synagogue at Nazareth ( Luke 4:16 ), of the regular reading of the Law and the Prophets in the synagogues ( Acts 13:27;  Acts 15:21 ), and of the reading of apostolic epistles in the Christian church ( Colossians 4:16;  1 Thessalonians 5:27 ); (2) also in the sense of reading to one's self , whether the divine word in Law or prophecy ( Deuteronomy 17:19;  Acts 8:28-30 , etc.), or such things as private letters ( 2 Kings 5:7;  2 Kings 19:14;  Acts 23:34 , etc.).

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Capital of Berkshire, on the Kennet, 36 m. N. of London; a town of considerable historic interest; was ravaged by the Danes; has imposing ruins of a 12th-century Benedictine abbey, &c.; was besieged and taken by Essex in the Civil War; birthplace of Archbishop Laud; has an important agricultural produce-market, and its manufactures include iron-ware, paper, sauce, and biscuits.