ariose

[From Ital. arioso (q. v.).] Characterised by melody as distinguished from harmony. ar-i-ō'-sō, adv. & s. [Ital. (1) lightsome, airy; (2) pretty, graceful: from aria = air, tune.] A. As adverb: After the manner of an air, as list in gui shed from recitative. IMG:content-0741.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0742.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To rise from the dead ( lit. & fig .). "Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleep est, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." -Ephes . V. 14. III. To swell as the waves of the sea in a storm, or a river during heavy rain. "Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise , thou stillest them." Ps . lxxxix. 9. (See also Luke vi. 48.) IV. To be excited against; to break forth against. 1. As anger. "And if so be that the king's wrath arise.."2 Sam . xi. 20. 2. As an a ailant rushing against one ( lit. & fig .). and when he [the lion? or the bear?] arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him."-1 Sam . xvii. 35. "Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered." Ps. lxviii. 1. V. To advance from a lower to a higher condition with regard to social standing, freedom from trial, intellectual, moral, or spiritual advancement. "... by whom shall Jacob arise ! for he is small." Amos vii. 2. VL. To commence, to begin. 1. To begin, to commence, to originate; to spring up, to rise, to emerge. the persecution that arose about Stephen." Acts xi. 19. "Nerves are said to arise or have their origin in the nervous centre to which they are on the one hand attached..."-Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat . , vol. 1., p. 216. 2. To begin to act a part; to rise up in a figurative sense. "Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph."- Exod . 1. 8.