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arayse

arayse is the obsolete spelling of araise.

Meaning of araise

Verb

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

  1. (archaic) To raise.
    • A medicine […] whose simple touch
      Is powerful to araise King Pepin.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]...

Forms of arayse

third-person singular presentarayses
present participlearaysing
past participlearaysed
pastaraysed

Questions about arayse

What is arayse the obsolete spelling of?
Arayse is the obsolete spelling of araise.

Words near arayse in the dictionary

  1. Aray
  2. Araya
  3. Arayas
  4. Arayat
  5. arayes
  6. arayse
  7. araysed
  8. arayses
  9. araysing
  10. Arazawa
  11. Arazawas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arayse (page history and authors); araise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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