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sunrising Now rare or arch. (superseded by sunrise).|ˈsʌnˌraɪzɪŋ|
[f. sun n.1 + pr. pple. or gerund of rise v., partly after F. soleil levant.]
= prec. (In early use often with the.)
c1250Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 26 To-janes þo sunne risindde [orig. Fr. vers le solail levant]. 13..K. Alis. 2901 Mury hit is in sonne risyng [Laud MS. sonnes risynge]. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 9237 To morn atte sonne rysyng. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xiv. (1495) V v b/2 Venus..warnyth that y⊇ daye comyth anone and the sonne rysynge [orig. solis ortum]. 1481Caxton Godfrey cxxxvii. 205 That alle man shold be in the mornyng to fore the sonne rysynge alle armed. 1565Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. I. 344 Befoir the sone rysing in the morning. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, v. iii. 61 Bid him bring his power Before Sun-rising. 1600Dallam in Early Voy. Levant (Hakluyt Soc.) 96 At the son risinge we paste by Cape Sprott. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 31 The most glorious Sun-risings are subject to shadowings and droppings in. 1709Addison Tatler No. 20 ⁋4 Where he may be seen from Sun-rising to Sun-setting. 1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) I. 169/1 The wind used to blow hard from the mountains at sunrising. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) IV. 207 The next morning, about sunrising, his sight was restored. 1883M. B. Betham-Edwards Disarmed xxx, You are young, and shall greet many a sunrising.
b. transf. The quarter or region in which the sun rises; the east; also with defining word indicating the precise quarter in which the sun rises at a specified season, as equinoctial sunrising, winter sunrising.
c1420Prose Life Alex. 76 We seke to ferre towarde þe son rysynge. 1513Douglas æneis vii. xi. 14 Or for till ettyll into Inde..Towart the dawing and son rysing to seyk. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 3 Nearest to the sunne risinge and furthest from the Northe Pole. 1601Holland Pliny ii. xlvii. I. 22 From the equinoctiall sunne-rising bloweth the East wind Subsolanus: from the rising therof in Mid-winter, the south-east Vulturnus. 1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 531 We might perceive all those Plains towards the Sun-rising covered with Troops. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 98/1 Bed-chambers for summer shou'd look to the South, the Parlours, to the Winter Sun⁓rising. 1868Holme Lee B. Godfrey xix. 110 The shadowed side towards the sunrising.
c. attrib. or quasi-adj.
a1618Raleigh Inv. Shipping (1650) 13 The French and Spanish called the sun rising winds, East..and the sunne setting winds West. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Hen-House, The Windows should be on the Sun-Rising side, strongly lathed. |