Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete or dialectal preterit of
rise . - Third person singular present indicative of rise (contracted from
riseth ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- 3d pers. sing. pres. of
rise , contracted fromriseth .
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Examples
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Masturbation really puts the "rist" back in Christmas.
The War on Christmas Rogers 2005
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Insult was added to injury by the sergeant casually plucking that article from it's "rist" and chucking it over.
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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Int'rist's one o 'them things that keeps right on nights an' Sundays.
The Christmas Story from David Harum Edward Noyes Westcott 1872
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"sherve-wright" (so pronounced) -- shelvewright (?) -- the "rist," and spindle, besides, of course, the usual coulter and share.
Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867
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Mentor for the most at rist teens are a good idea but its not enough
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At the rist of rambling on, let me say this story turns out happily ever after.
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"It doesn't look like [M.. Pataki is] going to run, but there is such a thing as slamming the door shut, and that he hasn't done," said Lee M. M.ringoff, director of the M.rist College Institute for Public Opinion.
Pataki Could Pose Threat to Gillibrand—If He Runs Michael Howard Saul 2010
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"It doesn't look like [M.. Pataki is] going to run, but there is such a thing as slamming the door shut, and that he hasn't done," said Lee M. M.ringoff, director of the M.rist College Institute for Public Opinion.
Pataki Could Pose Threat to Gillibrand—If He Runs Michael Howard Saul 2010
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For example, health insurer Bupa is now introducing a simpler referral route which skips the psychiat rist and goes straight to the psychologist.
London turns to therapy in wake of suicides and stress among highfliers Tara Loader Wilkinson 2010
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"It doesn't look like [M.. Pataki is] going to run, but there is such a thing as slamming the door shut, and that he hasn't done," said Lee M. M.ringoff, director of the M.rist College Institute for Public Opinion.
Pataki Could Pose Threat to Gillibrand—If He Runs Michael Howard Saul 2010
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