rising

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RI'SING, participle present tense 1. Getting up; ascending; mounting; springing; proceeding from; advancing; swelling; increasing; appearing above the horizon; reviving from death, etc. 2. Increasing in wealth, power or distinction; as a rising state; a rising character. RI'SING, noun 1. The act of getting up from any recumbent or sitting posture. 2. The act of ascending; as the rising of vapor. 3. The act of closing a session, as of a public body; as the rising of the legislature. 4. The appearance of the sun or a star above the horizon. 5. The act of reviving from the dead; resurrection. Mark 9:10. 6. A tumor on the body. Leviticus 13:2. 7. An assembling in opposition to government; insurrection; sedition or mutiny.
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