arise
Etymology

From Middle English arisen, from Old English ārīsan, from Proto-Germanic *uzrīsaną, equivalent to a- + rise.

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /əˈɹaɪz/
Verb

arise (arises, present participle arising; simple past arose, past participle arisen)

  1. (intransitive) To come up from a lower to a higher position.
    to arise from a kneeling posture
  2. (intransitive) To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
    He arose early in the morning.
  3. (intransitive) To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself.
    A cloud arose and covered the sun.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Exodus 1:8 ↗:
      There arose up a new king […] which knew not Joseph.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC ↗:
      the doubts that in his heart arose
    • 1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 92, page 454:
      Because Plato allowed them to co-exist, the meaning and connotations of the one overlap those of the other, and ambiguities arise.
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arise (plural arises)

  1. (obsolete) Arising, rising.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC ↗; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i ↗:
      And if before the Sunne haue meaſured heauen
      With triple circuit thou regreet vs not,
      We meane to take his mornings next ariſe.
      For meſſenger, he will not be reclaim’d,
      And meane to fetch thee in deſpight of him.



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