Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A rising, as from a seat, a bed, or the ground, or from below the horizon: as, “at the sonne ariste,” Chaucer, Astrolabe.
  • noun A shortened form of ariseth.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • obsolete 3d sing. pres. of arise, for ariseth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A rising, as from a seat, a bed, or the ground, or from below the horizon.

Etymologies

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From Middle English, from Old English ǣrist ("arising, rising up, resurrection, awakening"), from Proto-Germanic *uzristiz (“a rising up”), from Proto-Germanic *uzrīsanan (“to rise up”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + Proto-Germanic *rīsanan (“to rise”). Cognate with Gothic  (urrists, "a rising up"). More at arise.

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Examples

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  • This time, arist Joy Kolitsky takes a hearty swing at the vintage Marvel "What If ..." issue in which Conan goes toe-to-toe with Wolverine himself!

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  • They were created by Romanian arist Alex Dragulescu using actual code provided by MessageLabs from each of the viruses.

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  • "He's a real fine gentleman, a proper arist-o-crat!" says Cook, pleased to be approved for once.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • They were created by Romanian arist Alex Dragulescu using actual code provided by MessageLabs from each of the viruses.

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  • That is true Andry's, but all those things you mentioned are so because her husband was a master recording arist.

    Imitation of life Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • For all we know, all this arist got right was the hooked nose.

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  • Last night I went out to dinner with 3 people: Rachel, who works for a production company while working towards starting her own; Peggy, who is an editor for film and TV, and Chris, who is a previs arist on major motion pictures previsualization is the 3-D, computer-animated souped-up counterpart to storyboarding.

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  • Last night I went out to dinner with 3 people: Rachel, who works for a production company while working towards starting her own; Peggy, who is an editor for film and TV, and Chris, who is a previs arist on major motion pictures previsualization is the 3-D, computer-animated souped-up counterpart to storyboarding.

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  • For all we know, all this arist got right was the hooked nose.

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