arride

English

Etymology

From Latin arridere, from ad + ridere (“to laugh”).

Verb

arride (third-person singular simple present arrides, present participle arriding, simple past and past participle arrided)

1. (archaic, transitive) To please; to gratify.
   • 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:

     A pretty air; in general, I like it well: but in particular, your long die-note did arride me most.

   • 1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia: Oxford In The Vacation:

     Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of mouldering learning.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “arride”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• arider, raider

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arˈri.de/
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: ar‧rì‧de

Verb

arride

1. third-person singular present indicative of arridere

Anagrams

• Erardi, ardire, arredi, riarde, ridare, riderà

Latin

Verb

arrīdē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of arrīdeō