▪ I. † unˈrede Obs.
[OE. unrǽd (f. un- un-1 4 a, b + rǽd rede n.1), = OFris. unrêd, WFris. on-, ûnrie(d), MDu. onraet (Du. -raad), OHG. (MHG.) unrât (G. unrath), ON. {uacu}ráð (MSw. oradh, Sw. oråd, MDa. urad, Da. and Norw. uraad).]
Lack of counsel or wisdom; evil counsel; folly.
| c 893 K. ælfred Oros. iv. xii. 210 Scipia..self sæde..þæt hit wære se mæsta unræd & se mæsta ᵹedwola. c 1100 O.E. Chron. (MS. D) an. 1048, Ac hit þuhte unræd eallum folce. c 1205 Lay. 8011 Wale, wale, vnræd [c 1275 onread], mani cniht þu makest dæd. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 1906, xii. ȝer or ysaac was dead Iacobes sunes deden un-red. c 1275 Sinners Beware 303 in O.E. Misc. 82 He gredeþ þanne heye, Þe wrecches and þe vnsleye, Þat luuede þe vnredes. |
b. As the epithet given to King Ethelred II: see unready a.2
| c 1210 Leges Edw. in Lambarde Archaionomia fol. 138 b, ældredus unrade,..Edmundus yrenside. ? c 1275 Livere de Reis de Engletere (Rolls) 96 Cesti Eilred aucone genz apelent Eilred Unred; e assez proprement. |
▪ II. unrede
variant of unride a.