Part 631

<h1>Arise</h1> <Xpage=81>

<hw>A*rise"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Rising.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i> Drayton.</i>

<h1>Arist</h1> <Xpage=81>

<hw>A*rist"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>3d sing. pres.</tt> <def>of <er>Arise</er>, for <i>ariseth</i>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Arista</h1> <Xpage=81>

<hw>A*ris"ta</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>An awn.</def>

<i>Gray.</i>

<h1>Aristarch</h1> <Xpage=81>

<hw>Ar"is*tarch</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <ets>Aristarchus</ets>, a Greek grammarian and critic, of Alexandria, about 200 <sc>b. c</sc>.]</ety> <def>A severe critic.</def>

<i>Knowles.</i>

<h1>Aristarchian</h1> <Xpage=81>

<hw>Ar`is*tar"chi*an</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Severely critical.</def>

<h1>Aristarchy</h1> <Xpage=81>

<hw>Ar"is*tar`chy</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Severely criticism.</def>

<h1>Aristarchy</h1> <Xpage=81>

<hw>Ar"is*tar`chy</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Severe criticism.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir J. Harrington.</i>

<h1>Aristate</h1> <Xpage=81>

<hw>A*ris"tate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>aristatus</ets>, fr. <ets>arista</ets>. See <er>Arista</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned.</def>

<i>Gray.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Having a slender, sharp, or spinelike tip.</def>

<h1>Aristocracy</h1> <Xpage=81>

<hw>Ar`is*toc"ra*cy</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Aristocracies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[Gr. <?/; <?/ best + <?/ to be strong, to rule, <?/ strength; <?/ is perh. from the same root as E. <ets>arm</ets>, and orig. meant <ets>fitting</ets>: cf. F. <ets>aristocratie</ets>. See <er>Arm</er>, and <er>Create</er>, which is related to Gr. <?/.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Government by the best citizens.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A ruling body composed of the best citizens.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>In the Senate Right not our quest in this, I will protest them To all the world, no <b>aristocracy</b>. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy.</def>