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; 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
The auditors, to whom it is feigned to be told, do not arride me.
From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles
Gaude, plaude Magdalena, Tumb� Christus exiit; Tristis est per acta scena, Victor mortis rediit; Quem deflebis morientem, Nunc arride resurgentem: Alleluia resonet!
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle
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
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
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