arrose

See also: arrosé

English

Etymology

From French arroser.

Verb

arrose (third-person singular simple present arroses, present participle arrosing, simple past and past participle arrosed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten.
   • 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson;  […], published 1634, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     The blissful dew of heaven does arrose you.

   • 1856, Jules Oppert, On Babylon, page 105:

     Who from the commencement of his reign spared not the kings his enemies, who never saw rest from battle and fight, who crused like hesbet the lands and their rulers; the four cardinal points were arrosed with blood.

   • 1904, Barry Pain, Lindley Kays, page 17:

     Within that side-board were cake and biscuits, fruits too, in their season, and a decanter of rich port wherewith to arrose them.

Anagrams

• Reasor, Serrao, soarer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

arrose

1. inflection of arroser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative