Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To please; gratify.

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

  • transitive verb Archaic To please; to gratify.

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  • verb archaic, transitive To please; to gratify.

Etymologies

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Latin arridere; ad + ridere to laugh.

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Examples

  • I read it a good deal later in French, and, being then better qualified, _did_ perceive these merits, though it still did not greatly "arride" me.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • Without doubt, Lamb's taste on several matters was peculiar; for instance, there were a few obsolete words, such as arride, agnize, burgeon, which he fancied, and chose to rescue from oblivion.

    Charles Lamb Cornwall, Barry 1866

  • Here are the cottage and the bungalow for the cobbeler and the brandnewburgher: 2 but Izolde, her chaplet gardens, an litlee plads af liefest pose, arride the winnerful wonders off, the winner-ful wonnerful wanders off, 3 with hedges of ivy and hollywood and bower of mistletoe, are, tho if it theem tho and yeth if you pleathes, 4 for the blithehaired daughter of

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • The most hackneyed device may seem brilliantly original to him, the stalest stage trick as fresh as if just hot from the brain; and jokes that deterred the dove from returning to the ark arride him vastly.

    Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

  • Pharisees of academic music and so arride the guileless public.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • These modes and fashions never mind arride * Save him unknowing of his requisite.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • The auditors to whom it is feigned to be told, do not _arride me_.

    The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

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