taking its rise

Verb

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

1. (dated, idiomatic) To originate
   • “I’m glad I’m only half Murray,” she said to herself. Aloud—“Father told me it was a Murray tradition not to carry spite past the grave.”
     “So ’tis now—but it took its rise from this very thing. His family were so horrified at it, you see. It made considerable of a scandal. Some folks twisted it...1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, in Emily of New Moon