arride
English
Etymology
From Latin arridere, from ad + ridere (“to laugh”).
Verb
arride (third-person singular simple present arrides, present participle arriding, simple past and past participle arrided)
- (archaic, transitive) To please; to gratify.
- 1600 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Revels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, OCLC 960101342:
- A pretty air; in general, I like it well: but in particular, your long die-note did arride me most.
- 1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, Oxford In The Vacation
- Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of mouldering learning.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for arride in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- arider, raider
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /arˈri.de/
- Rhymes: -ide
- Hyphenation: ar‧rì‧de
Verb
arride
- third-person singular present indicative of arridere
Anagrams
- Erardi, ardire, arredi, riarde, ridare, riderà
Latin
Verb
arrīdē
- second-person singular present active imperative of arrīdeō