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.

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Verb

arrose

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