Word Finder - risen

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To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.

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To increase in value or standing.

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To begin; to develop.

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To go up; to ascend; to climb.

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to rise a hill

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To cause to go up or ascend.

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to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water

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To retire; to give up a siege.

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To come; to offer itself.

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To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.

Babylonia had risen into supreme importance for Jewish life at about the time when the Mishnah was completed.

The bed of the river was found to have risen at least 20 ft.

From time to time the Indians have risen against the Mormons.

Nor did the latter, having risen and curtsied, know what to do.

The sun had risen brightly and its slanting rays struck straight into Napoleon's face as, shading his eyes with his hand, he looked at the fleches.

But I refused the permission which Becket solicited of reprinting it; the public curiosity was imperfectly satisfied by a pirated copy of the booksellers of Dublin; and when a copy of the original edition has been discovered in a sale, the primitive value of half-a-crown has risen to the fanciful price of a guinea or thirty shillings."

The Christian Church would never have come into existence without faith in the Risen Lord.

Thrice have they slain me, thrice have I risen from the dead.

The cost of having a baby has risen significantly.

The title of marquis, which Napoleon did not revive, has risen proportionately in the estimation of the Faubourg St Germain.

In 1872 revenue had risen to £ 180, 499 anci expenditure to £132,978.

The public debt, £2,101,500 in 1882, had risen at the close of the Boer War in 1902 to £12,519,000, and was in June 1909, £ 21,420,000.

In 1895 there entered the port 905 vessels representing a tonnage of 835,248 tons, while in 1905 the number of vessels had risen to 1842, representing a tonnage of 1,492,514 tons.

Just then Dorothy, who had risen early and heard the voices of the animals, ran out to greet her old friends.

Conversely, in places where prosperity has not risen, lack of these ingredients plays a significant role.

She looked as if she had just risen from the foam of the sea, and her loveliness was like a strain of heavenly music.

On the whole, I think that it cannot be maintained that dressing has in this or any country risen to the dignity of an art.

Here goes lumber from the Maine woods, which did not go out to sea in the last freshet, risen four dollars on the thousand because of what did go out or was split up; pine, spruce, cedar--first, second, third, and fourth qualities, so lately all of one quality, to wave over the bear, and moose, and caribou.

At the advent of each individual into this life, may we not suppose that such a bar has risen to the surface somewhere?

Rostov reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace.

Above him again was the same lofty sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and between them gleamed blue infinity.

Instead of sixteen hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand.

It's very important! said he to someone who had risen and was sniffing in the dark passage.

The price of a new car has risen dramatically over the last couple of decades.

In the last decade, leasing has also risen in popularity.

It marks the dawn of a public spirit as represented by the gentry, who, alarmed at the national peril and justly suspicious of the ruling magnates, unhesitatingly placed their destinies in the hands of Hunyadi, the one honest man who by sheer merit had risen within the last ten years from the humble position of a country squire to a leading position in the state.

In 1883, before the Rand gold mines had been found revenue and expenditure were about £150,000; in 1887, when the mines were beginning to be developed, the receipts were £668,000 and the expenditure £721,000; in 1889 the receipts had risen to £1,577,000 and the expenditure to £1,226,000.

In 1890-1891 the revenue of Lower Burma has risen to Rs.2,08,38,872 from imperial taxation, Rs.1,55,51,897 for provincial services, and Rs.12,14,596 from incorporated local funds.

Afterwards, when the metal has risen above B, to the level KK', the additional thrust is the weight of the cylinder of diameter KK' and height BH.

Then he was solemnly declared king in the temple of Bel-Merodach, which had again risen from its ruins, and Babylon became the second capital of the empire.

The increase in the consumption is exemplified by the fact that, while in 1700 the amount used in Great Britain was ro,000 tons, in 1800 it had risen to 150,000 tons, and in 1885 the total quantity used was almost 1,roo,000 tons.

In 1900 the total had risen to £820,000, of which £480,000 was for imports and £340,000 for exports, the share of France in that year having been 45% of imports and 47% of exports.

The value of trade passing through the customs in 1899 was 1,729,000; in 1904 these figures had risen to X2,543,831.

The town, which has risen with the fortunes of the Ibn Rashid family to be the capital of Upper Nejd, is at the mouth of the valley between the twin ranges, about 2 m.

The population of Pisa within the walls had been reduced in 1551 to 8574 souls, and by 1745 it had only risen to the number of 12,406.

Other towns of Tunisia are, on the east coast, Nabeul, pop. about 5000, the ancient Neapolis, noted for the mildness of its climate and its pottery manufactures; Hammamet with 37 00 inhabitants; Monastir (the Ruspina of the Romans), a walled town with 5600 inhabitants and a trade in cereals and oils; Mandiya or Mandia (q.v.; in ancient chronicles called the city of Africa and sometimes the capital of the country) with 8500 inhabitants, the fallen city of the Fatimites, which since the French occupation has risen from its ruins, and has a new harbour (the ancient Cothon or harbour, of Phoenician origin, cut out of the rock is nearly dry but in excellent preservation); and Gabes (Tacape of the Romans, Qabis of the Arabs) on the Syrtis, a group of small villages, with an aggregate population of 16,000, the port of the Shat country and a depot of the esparto trade.

They adorned Tunis with mosques, schools and other institutions, favoured letters, and in general appear to have risen above the usual level of Moslem sovereigns.

He had risen in Maud far above his ordinary serenity of style, to ecstasies of passion and audacities of expression which were scarcely intelligible to his readers, and certainly not welcome.

Fabius Quintilianus, or Quintilian (c. 35-95), is brought forward by Juvenal as a unique instance of a thoroughly successful man of letters, of one not belonging by birth to the rich or official class, who had risen to wealth and honours through literature.

The investment of Metz had lasted 54 days, and the deathroll of the civil population had risen to 3587 against 1200 in the corresponding period of a normal year.

This is the highest point it attains, and it has risen about 21 5 0 ft.

He entered the Prussian navy in 1865, and by 1890 had risen to be chief-of-staff of the Baltic station in the Imperial navy.

Mergui town has risen into prominence in recent years as the centre of the pearling trade in the neighbouring archipelago.

In 5904 it had risen to 4,846,052 and in 1907 was 4,671,146.

To understand the philosophical theory that has come to be known under this title, we may ask (I) what in general it is and how it is differentiated from other theories of knowledge and reality, (2) how it has risen in the history of philosophy, (3) what position it occupies at present in the world of speculation.

In 1900 less than 1.3% of the population was coloured; 30.2% were foreign-born (this element having almost continuously risen from 16.49% in 1855), and 62.3% of all inhabitants and 46.5% of those nativeborn had one or both parents of foreign birth.

Although the interest on the state fund had risen to $70,000 in 1819, this together with an equal sum raised by the cities and towns was insufficient, and to meet the deficiency the patrons in each district were required by a " rate bill " to contribute in proportion to the attendance of their children.

External trade has risen from £13,111,000 in 1887 to £37,371,000 in 1907.

There were 9149 flocks in 1886; in 1906 the number had risen to 18,500 - average size of each flock about 1050.

The export of butter and cheese has risen in value from £207,687 in 1890, till in 1907 that of butter amounted to £1,615,000.