Arise
[ə'raɪz]
Definition
(verb.) result or issue; 'A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion'.
(verb.) rise to one's feet; 'The audience got up and applauded'.
(verb.) originate or come into being; 'a question arose'.
Edited by Babbage--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the morning.
(v. i.) 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; as, the waves of the sea arose; a persecution arose; the wrath of the king shall arise.
(v. i.) To proceed; to issue; to spring.
(n.) Rising.
Checker: Lucille
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Ascend, mount, soar, tower, go up.[2]. Get up, start up, get out of bed.[3]. Rise, appear, come in sight, come into view, present itself, show itself, discover itself, make its appearance, reveal itself, come to light.[4]. Begin, originate, spring, spring up, be excited, come into action.[5]. Come into being, enter upon life.[6]. Accrue, result, proceed, issue, flow, follow, come, ensue, be derived.
Edited by Emily
Definition
v.i. to rise up: to come up so as to be heard: to ascend: to come into view: to spring:—pa.t. arose′; pa.p. aris′en.
Typist: Veronica
Examples
- Difficulties arise when we try to apply this wisdom in the present. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Arise, my liegemen, and be good subjects in future. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But other generations will arise, and ever and for ever will continue, to be made happier by our present acts, to be glorified by our valour. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- How much of the future might arise before _her_ vision? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But the revenue of the sovereign does not, in any part of Europe, arise chiefly from a land tax or land rent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Say then, my friend, In what manner does tyranny arise? Plato. The Republic.
- This the Muses affirm to be the stock from which discord has sprung, wherever arising; and this is their answer to us. Plato. The Republic.
- The signals of his telegraph consisted of the bubbles of gas arising from the decomposition of water, during the action of the electric current. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Had Canby been in other engagements afterwards, he would, I have no doubt, have advanced without any fear arising from a sense of the responsibility. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was not the bad manners of ignorance; it was the wilful bad manners arising from deep offence. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Inequalities arising from the nature of the employments themselves. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- So the Government intends to take to itself a great portion of the revenues arising from priestly farms, factories, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They enter with more warmth into such sentiments, and feel more sensibly the pleasure, which arises from them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And any difference which arises among them will be regarded by them as discord only--a quarrel among friends, which is not to be called a war? Plato. The Republic.
- Society arises out of the wants of man. Plato. The Republic.
- From this relation of impressions, and identity of ideas, the passion arises, according to my hypothesis. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- No intelligent ruler, he said, arises to take me as his master, and my time has come to die. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here arises a feature of the Circumlocution Office, not previously mentioned in the present record. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Everything that arose before his mind drifted him on, faster and faster, more and more steadily, to the terrible attraction. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Then it slowly arose, and sat in the window looking out. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Races came and went, species passed away, but ever new species arose, more lovely, or equally lovely, always surpassing wonder. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Please, Cap'n Vye, will you let us---- Eustacia arose and went to the door. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A wild cry of exultation arose from the Heliumite squadron, and with redoubled ferocity they fell upon the Zodangan fleet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Gradually there arose before me the hat, head, neckcloth, waistcoat, trousers, boots, of a member of society of about my own standing. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He was mentally the new thing in history, negligent of and rather ignorant of the older things out of which his new world had arisen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Had any difference arisen between him and her papa? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We have already glanced, in Chapter XII, at the elements of religion that must have arisen necessarily in the minds of those early peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A great outcry has arisen and a number of perfectly conventional men like Lorimer suffer an undeserved humiliation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- How could such a gross falsehood have arisen? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- If such a condition as failure of the pump to work for ten minutes had arisen during a descent in the old elastic diving dress the result must necessarily have been fatal. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Nelly