Who is't can read a woman?
Shak.
6. To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to
learn by observation.
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.
7. To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read
theology or law.
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.