araise

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ raise.

Verb

araise (third-person singular simple present araises, present participle araising, simple past and past participle araised)

1. (archaic) To raise.
   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     A medicine […] whose simple touch
     Is powerful to araise King Pepin.