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rizon; 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.

to canvass by distributing letters. Syn. -- circularize. [WordNet 1.5]

Following the practice of Pharisees; Pharisaic. [Obs.] "Pharisean disciples." Milton.

One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to separate themselves from the other Jews.

See Pharisaism.

er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French à (L. ad…

To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent. "Interest accrues to principal." Abbott. The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.

Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. [Obs.] The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ. Bp. Hall.

Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp. Milton. Hills peep o'er hills, and alps on alps arise. Pope.

two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.

mpatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

of Arise, for ariseth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The past or preterit tense of Arise.

An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation. Vaporous ascensions from the stomach. Sir T. Browne. Ascension Day, the Thursday but one before Whitsuntide, the day on which commemorated our Savior's ascension into heaven after his resurrection; -- called also Holy Thursday.…

The universal ego from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought.

r, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory every people arises from its authors. Johnson.

icked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. "This day's black fate." "Black villainy." "Arise, black vengeance." "Black day." "Black despair." Shak.

f, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.

The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi. Dunglison.

A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola.