take one's rise

English

Verb

take one's rise (third-person singular simple present takes one's rise, present participle taking one's rise, simple past took one's rise, past participle taken one's rise)

1. To originate.
   • 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 34:

     Two miles from the summit is the spring from which the Colorado River takes its rise.