Word Meanings - AROSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The past or preterit tense of Arise.

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• PRETERIT
  Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past. 2. Belonging wholly to the past; passed by. Things and persons as thoroughly preterite as Romulus or Numa. Lowell.
• PRETERITIVE
  Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses, as certain verbs.
• TENSE
  One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time. Note: The primary simple tenses are three:
• PRETERITION
  A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, "I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just." Called also paraleipsis. (more info) 1. The act of passing, or going past; the state of being
• PRETERITENESS
  See PRETERITNESS
• ARISE
  1. To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; 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
• PRETERITNESS
  The quality or state of being past. Bentley. Lowell.
• PRETERITE
  See PRETERIT
• INTENSE
  to stretch: cf. F. intense. See Intend, and cf. Intent, and cf. 1. Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought. 2. Extreme in degree; excessive; immoderate; as:
• PRETENSELESS
  Not having or making pretenses.
• INTENSENESS
  The state or quality of being intense; intensity; as, the intenseness of heat or cold; the intenseness of study or thought.
• PRETENSED
  Pretended; feigned. -- Pre*tens"ed*ly, adv.
• PHARISEEISM
  See PHARISAISM
• PHARISEAN
  Following the practice of Pharisees; Pharisaic. "Pharisean disciples." Milton.
• SUBTENSE
  A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc.
• PHARISEE
  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.
• PRETENSEFUL
  Abounding in pretenses.
• COINTENSE
  Equal in intensity or degree; as, the relations between 6 and 12, and 8 and 16, are cointense. H. Spencer.
• PRETENSE; PRETENCE
  1. The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension. Spenser. Primogeniture can not have any pretense to a right of solely inheriting property or power. Locke. I went to Lambeth with Sir R. Brown's pretense to the wardenship
• CIRCULARISE
  1. to canvass by distributing letters. Syn. -- circularize. 2. to distribute circulars to. Syn. -- circularize. 3. to to pass around, as information. Syn. -- circulate, circularize, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse,
• EXTENSE
  Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise. Men and gods are too extense; Could you slacken and condense Emerson.
• INTENSELY
  1. Intently. J. Spencer. 2. To an extreme degree; as, weather intensely cold.