Arise
Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˈraɪz/
- Rhymes: -aɪz
Alternative forms
- arize obsolete
Origin
From Middle English arisen, from Old English ÄrÄ«san ("to arise, get up; rise; spring from, originate; spring up, ascend"), from Proto-Germanic *uzrÄ«sanÄ… ("to rise up, arise"), equivalent to - + rise. Cognate with Scots arise, aryse ("to arise, rise up, come into existence"), Middle Low German errÄ«sen ("to stand up, arise"), Old High German irrÄ«san ("to rise up, fall"), Gothic (urreisan, "to arise").
Full definition of arise
Verb
- To come up from a lower to a higher position.to arise from a kneeling postureA cloud arose and covered the sun.
- To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.He arose early in the morning.
- 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.
- Bible, Exodus i. 8There arose up a new king ... which knew not Joseph.
- Miltonthe doubts that in his heart arose
- 1961, J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 92, p. 454,Because Plato allowed them to co-exist, the meaning and connotations of the one overlap those of the other, and ambiguities arise.