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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic, transitive To
please ; togratify .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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These modes and fashions never mind arride * Save him unknowing of his requisite.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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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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