different between aread vs abread

English

From Old English ar?dan, ar?dan, corresponding to a- +? read. Cognate with German erraten.

aread (third-person singular simple present areads, present participle areading, simple past and past participle ared)

(obsolete) To soothsay, prophesy. [11th-17th c.]
(obsolete) To interpret; to explain. [11th-19th c.]
- c. 1591-1592, Edmund Spenser, Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier
  Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case.
(obsolete) To advise, counsel. [16th-17th c.]

From Middle English abrede or on brede, from a- or on (“on”) + brede (“breadth”).

abread

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