Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Preterit of
arise .
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- The past or preterit tense of
arise .
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- verb Simple past of
arise .
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The term arose from microtargeting research that identified a swath of largely Southern white males who could be expected to back President George W. Bush's campaign, provoking another round of hand-wringing from Democrats that the demographic might be out of reach.
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Thus the term arose initially with reference to the postpartum context, and is still used in that domain.
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Finally, anyone who reads the initial New Weird discussions will find that the term arose from a sense of curiosity, of play, of sometimes bloody-minded mischievousness, and from a love for fiction.
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Thus the term arose initially with reference to the postpartum context, and is still used in that domain.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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However, direct evidence is lacking, and the term arose in the US, where gypsies have been less common than in Europe.
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There is no need to go beyond that date, since no new connotations of the term arose in the fourth-century orators and philosophers or in
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968
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This latter use of the term arose in France, where it was applied to the younger sons of the _noblesse_ who gained commissioned rank, not by serving in the ranks or by entering the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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It was among the pagans that the title arose, among pagans who heard that a lean called
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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* The term arose, it has been said, from the use of the copper cent with its head of Liberty as a peace button.
Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North 1901
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Indeed, I am bound to add that very slight effort to discover the truth would have convinced him that, as a matter of fact, the term arose otherwise.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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