Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. rise
2. The act of rising, either in a literal or figurative sense; ascent; as the rise of vapor in the air; the rise of mercury in the barometer; the rise of water in a river.
3. The act of springing or mounting from the ground; as the rise of the feet in leaping.
5. Spring; source; origin; as the rise of a stream in a mountain. All sin has its rise in the heart.
6. Any place elevated above the common level; as a rise of land.
7. Appearance above the horizon; as the rise of the sun or a star.
8. Increase; advance; as a rise in the price of wheat.
9. Advance in rank, honor, property or fame. Observe a man after his rise to office, or a family after its rise from obscurity.
10. Increase of sound on the same key; a swelling of the voice.
12. Increase; augmentation.
13. A bough or branch. [Not in use.]
2. To move to pass upward in any manner; to ascend; as, a fog rises from a river or from low ground; a fish rises in water; fowls rise in the air; clouds rise from the horizon towards the meridian; a balloon rises above the clouds.
3. To get up; to leave the place of sleep or rest; as, to rise from bed.
6. To spring; to grow; as a plant; hence, to be high or tall. A tree rises to the height of 60 feet.
7. To swell in quantity or extent; to be more elevated; as, a river rises after a rain.
8. To break forth; to appear; as, a boil rises on the skin.
9. To appear above the horizon; to shine; as, the sun or a star rises.
10. He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good. Matthew 5:45 .
11. To begin to exist; to originate; to come into being or notice. Great evils sometimes rise from small imprudences.
12. To be excited; to begin to move or act; as, the wind rose at 12 o'clock.
13. To increase in violence. The wind continued to rise till 3 o'clock.
14. To appear in view; as, to rise up to the reader's view.
15. To appear in sight; also, to appear more elevated; as in sailing towards a shore, the land rises.
16. To change a station; to leave a place; as, to rise from a siege.
17. To spring; to be excited or produced. A thought now rises in my mind.
18. To gain elevation in rank, fortune or public estimation; to be promoted. Men may rise by industry, by merit, by favor, or by intrigue.
19. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
20. When the wicked rise men hide themselves. Proverbs 28:12 .
21. To break forth into public commotions; to make open opposition to government; or to assemble and oppose government; or to assemble in arms for attacking another nation. The Greeks have risen against their oppressors.
22. No more shall nation against nation rise
23. To be excited or roused into action.
24. RISE up to the battle. Jeremiah 49:14 .
25. To make a hostile attack; as when a man riseth against his neighbor. Deuteronomy 22:1 .
26. Also, to rebel. 2 Samuel 18:32 .
27. To increase; to swell; to grow more or greater. A voice, feeble at first, rises to thunder. The price of good rises. The heat rises to intensity.
28. To be improved; to recover from depression; as, a family may rise after misfortune to opulence and splendor.
29. To elevate the style or manner; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence.
30. To be revived from death.
31. The dead in Christ shall rise first. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 .
32. To come by chance.
33. To ascend; to be elevated above the level or surface; as, the ground rises gradually one hundred yards. The Andes rise more than 20, 000 feet above the level of the ocean; a mountain in Asia is said to rise still higher.
34. To proceed from.
35. A scepter shall rise out of Israel. Numbers 24:17 .
36. To have its sources in. Rivers rise in lakes, ponds and springs.
39. To amount. The public debt rises to a hundred million.
40. To close a session. We say, congress will rise on the 4th of March; the legislature or the court will rise on a certain day.
41. This verb is written also arise, which see. In general, it is indifferent which orthography is used; but custom has, in some cases, established one to the exclusion of the other. Thus we never say, the price of goods arises, when we mean advanced, but we always say, the price rises. We never say, the ground arises to a certain altitude, and rarely, a man arises into an office or station. It is hardly possible to class or define the cases in which usage has established a difference in the orthography of this verb.
1. The act of rising, or the state of being risen.
2. The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.
3. Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.
4. Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.
5. Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.
6. Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.
7. Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.
9. The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.
1. To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.
3. To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
4. To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.
5. To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.
6. To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.
7. To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.
8. To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.
9. To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.
10. To retire; to give up a siege.
12. To have the aspect or the effect of rising.
13. To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.
14. To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.
15. To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.
16. To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.
17. To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.
18. To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.
19. To become of higher value; to increase in price.
21. To increase in intensity; -- said of heat.
22. To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.
23. To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.
24. In various figurative senses.
25. To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
26. To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.
27. To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.
28. To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
29. To come; to offer itself.
30. To ascend from the grave; to come to life.
31. To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.
33. To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form.
Risen
Webster's Dictionary 1913
p. p. & a. from Rise.
1. One that rises; as an early riser
2. Among joiners, the upright board of a stair.
1. One who rises; as, an early riser.
3. Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like.
4. A shaft excavated from below upward.
5. A feed head. See under Feed, n.
The quality of being risible; as, risibility is peculiar to the human species.
1. Having the faculty or power of laughing. Man is a risible animal.
2. Laughable; capable of exciting laughter. The description of Falstaff in Shakespeare, exhibits a risible scene. risible differs from ludicrous, as species from genus; ludicrous expressing that which is playful and sportive; risible that which may excite laughter. risible differs from ridiculous, as the latter implies something mean or contemptible, and risible does not.
3. Used in, or expressing, laughter; as, risible muscles.
2. The act of ascending; as the rising of vapor.
3. The act of closing a session, as of a public body; as the rising of the legislature.
4. The appearance of the sun or a star above the horizon.
5. The act of reviving from the dead; resurrection.
6. Mark 9:10 .
7. A tumor on the body. Leviticus 13:2 .
1. Getting up; ascending; mounting; springing; proceeding from; advancing; swelling; increasing; appearing above the horizon; reviving from death, etc.
2. Increasing in wealth, power or distinction; as a rising state; a rising character.
1. Attaining a higher place; taking, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending; as, the rising moon.
2. Increasing in wealth, power, or distinction; as, a rising state; a rising character.
3. Growing; advancing to adult years and to the state of active life; as, the rising generation.
1. The act of one who, or that which, rises (in any sense).
More than; exceeding; upwards of; as, a horse rising six years of age.
2. Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.
3. To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.
4. To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.
One who hazards.
One who risks or hazards.
Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles.
of rise.
Any one of very numerous species of small spiral gastropods of the genus Rissoa, or family Rissoidae, found both in fresh and salt water.
Rist
Webster's Dictionary 1913
3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth.
Rist
Encyclopedia Britannica
RIST Johann (1607-1667), German hymn-writer, was born at Ottensen in Holstein on March 8, 1607, and educated at Hamburg, Bremen, Leyden, Utrecht, and Leipsic. In 1635 he became a preacher at Wedel on the Elbe, and there he died on 31st August 1667 (see Hymns, vol. xii. pp. 586-7).
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 20, p. 568
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The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
And by the time the sun had risen over the land, Lot had reached Zoar.
And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, and when Pharaoh goes out to the water, stand before him and tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.
If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
then the one who struck him shall go unpunished, as long as the other can get up and walk around outside with his staff. Nevertheless, he must compensate the man for his lost work and see that he is completely healed.
If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
But if it happens after sunrise, there is guilt for his bloodshed. A thief must make full restitution; if he has nothing, he himself shall be sold for his theft.
When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or a bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:
“When someone has a swelling or rash or bright spot on his skin that could become an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest.
And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
The priest will examine him, and if there is a white swelling on the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,
And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is an inflammation of the burning.
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.