arride
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of arride
1590–1600; < Latin arrīdēre to smile upon, please, equivalent to ar- ar- + rīdēre to smile, laugh; see ridicule
Example Sentences
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Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me, are thy repositories of mouldering learning, thy shelves— What a place to be in is an old library!
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles
No good in loving when a rival shows * E'en tho' 'twere victual shared by other wight; These modes and fashions never mind arride * Save him unknowing of his requisite.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Tristis est peracta scena, Victor mortis rediit; Quem deflebas morientem, Nunc arride resurgentem!
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron
If regardant, then maintain your station, brisk and irpe, show the supple motion of your pliant body, but in chief of your knee, and hand, which cannot but arride her proud humour exceedingly.
From Cynthia's Revels by Jonson, Ben
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.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
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