Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Past participle of rise.
- noun An obsolete preterit plural of
rise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- p. p. & a. from
rise . - imp. pl. of
Rise .
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- verb Past participle of
rise
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of e.g. celestial bodies) above the horizon
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Examples
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[Mark’s] ‘Now when [JESUS] was risen’ to Matthew’s ‘in the end of the sabbath,’ (for _then_ we believe Him to have _risen_;) and all that comes after, expressive as it is of a different notion, we connect with what follows.
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark John William Burgon 1850
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“Congratulations to you all, Butterflies, for you have this term risen from bottom place to second, and you were very nearly top,” declares Duckworth Butterfly housemaster Mr. Valentine Corrado in the December 1927 issue, adding grandly, as if reflecting on the outcome of a military battle, “to the very end it was uncertain whether you or the Duckworth Grasshoppers would triumph.”
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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But on hearing that Jesus has risen from the dead the women, like the men, fled, “for terror and amazement had sized them.”
Religion 2010
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Shades of Tuscaloosa circa 1963 without the sexual revolution and there was an old frat brother so into the 1950s South Alabama-back-patting-hail-fellow-well - met unctuous culture I thought Geotge Wallace had risen from the grave and come back to haunt me late in life and now this old frat brother is down there sucking up to Amigos de San Cristóbal and damn, I thought I was safe within 50 kilometers of the Guatemala border.
Free Range Chickens 2009
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But on hearing that Jesus has risen from the dead the women, like the men, fled, “for terror and amazement had sized them.”
A Podcast Sermon for Easter Morning On Mark 15: 1-15, 17-20: "Hope Resurrected" 2009
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But on hearing that Jesus has risen from the dead the women, like the men, fled, “for terror and amazement had sized them.”
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Shades of Tuscaloosa circa 1963 without the sexual revolution and there was an old frat brother so into the 1950s South Alabama-back-patting-hail-fellow-well - met unctuous culture I thought Geotge Wallace had risen from the grave and come back to haunt me late in life and now this old frat brother is down there sucking up to Amigos de San Cristóbal and damn, I thought I was safe within 50 kilometers of the Guatemala border.
Free Range Chickens 2009
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Man has risen from the vitalized slime of the primeval sea to the mastery of matter; but he has not yet mastered society.
Goliah 2010
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One major reason insurance premiums and hospital costs have risen is the need to cover the cost of caring for people who have little or no coverage.
Healthcare Reform Bill passes out of Ways & Means (Blog for Democracy) 2009
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Shades of Tuscaloosa circa 1963 without the sexual revolution and there was an old frat brother so into the 1950s South Alabama-back-patting-hail-fellow-well - met unctuous culture I thought Geotge Wallace had risen from the grave and come back to haunt me late in life and now this old frat brother is down there sucking up to Amigos de San Cristóbal and damn, I thought I was safe within 50 kilometers of the Guatemala border.
Free Range Chickens 2009
patty4jc commented on the word risen
"The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!" Luke 24:34
October 25, 2007