backread
verb/ˈbækˌɹiːd/ · /ˈbækˌɹɛd/
Etymology From back + read.
1
IRC Internet, Especially To catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.
2
IRC Internet, Broadly, Especially To read conversations one was not present for.
3
To interpret what one has read previously in the light of later experience or knowledge.
- Thereafter, Freud was obliged not only to expand but to backread that expansion into all that came before.1980, Diana Hume George, Blake and Freud:
- What must be recognized is the nature of the source material in which one sees a theological/ideological backreading of history.2001, Andrew Rippin, Muslims: their religious beliefs and practices: