arride

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verb

To please; to gratify.

OriginLatin arrīdēre →
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Meanings

verbarride (third-person singular simple present arrides, present participle arriding, simple past and past participle arrided)

present singular third person arrides · participle present arriding · participle past arrided · past arrided

  1. archaictransitiveTo please; to gratify.

    A pretty air; in general, I like it well: but in particular, your long die-note did arride me most.

    1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC
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    Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of mouldering learning.

    1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia: Oxford In The Vacation

Origin

  1. Latinarrīdēre
  2. Englisharride

From Latin arrīdēre, from ad + rīdēre (“to laugh”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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