misgoverned (iou) and rise(1) (iou)

misgoverned (iou)

misgoverned adjective. LME.
[from MISGOVERN + -ED1.]
Characterized by misconduct; immoral. LME-E17.
Unruly; misdirected. L16-M17.
Badly ruled; mismanaged. M19.

rise noun. LME.
[from the verb. In sense 1 perh. erron. for RUSE.]
I. An act of turning or doubling by a hunted hare, to elude a pursuer. Only in LME.
A revolt, a rebellion. Earliest in make a rise, revolt, rebel. rare. LME-M19.
Boswell The Genoese, eager to repress the rise of 1734.
(The time of) the rising of the sun, moon, etc., above the horizon. Also, the direction of sunrise, the east. Earliest in SUNRISE, and now chiefly in this and parallel formations, as moonrise etc. LME.
J. K. James To her at rise, to her at sunset hour. R. Bridges She..Lookt left and right to rise and set of day.
Upward movement; ascent; transference to a higher level. Also, an instance of this. L16.
Sir W. Scott The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembled on the rise.
b. Capacity for or power of rising. E18.
c. Cricket. The upward movement of a ball after pitching. M19.
d. Theatrical. The raising of the curtain at the beginning of a scene. Freq. in at rise. E20.
J. Osborne At rise of curtain Jimmy and Cliff are seated in..armchairs.
e. An erection of the penis. Freq. in get a rise. slang. M20.
a. A spring or bound upwards; esp. one made at the outset of an extended jump or leap. Only in 17.
b. A start or aid towards rising in a leap; a place from which to rise or soar. M17-E18.
Upward movement to a position of power or prosperity; elevation in fortune or rank; advance towards a flourishing or prosperous condition. Formerly also (rare), an occasion or means of achieving this. M17.
W. Spalding The rise of the Medici..furnished liberal patrons to Art. J. Bryce The rise and fall of the Whig party.
b. The action of rising from or from a specified condition; spec. (Christian Theology) the resurrection of Christ. arch. M18.
Angling. The movement of a fish to the surface of the water to take a fly or bait; an instance of this. M17.
New Yorker They nipped at the fly and disappeared..I got no more rises.
II.
A piece of rising ground; a hill. LME.
C. Macleod Helen mounted the not inconsiderable rise towards the residential area. W. Soyinka On a misty day, the steep rise towards Itoko would join the sky.
b. A long, broad, gently sloping elevation rising from the seabed, esp. that at the edge of a continental shelf. E20.
The vertical height of a step, arch, inclined surface, etc., measured from the base to the highest point. M17.
An upward slope or direction, esp. of a stratum, bed, or vein. L17.
T. H. Huxley A very sharp rise leads from the Pacific to the..Andes.
b. Mining. An excavation or working on the up side of a shaft. M19.
A flight of steps. Also = RISER 2. E18.
Lancashire Life From the entrance-hall an eight-rise flight of stairs takes you to a..landing.
III.
An increase in something that can be measured or quantified, as the height of the sea, pressure, temperature, value, price, etc.; the amount of this increase. E17.
C. Lyell The perpendicular rise and fall of..spring-tides is fifteen feet. B. Stewart Heat is..absorbed by the ice without producing any rise of temperature. Law Times A great rise..in the value of the..property. M. Beresford This..would put the beginning of the population rise at about 1460.
A raising of pitch in a tone or voice. E17.
spec. An increase in the amount of wages or salary. M19.
F. Chichester I asked for a rise from fifteen..to twenty-five shillings a week.
IV.
An origin, a source; a beginning; a start. M17.
J. Wesley Nor Plague of unknown Rise. P. Gallico It was here that the brook..had its rise.
An occasion; a ground, a basis. obsolete exc. in give rise to below. M17.
L. Sterne The rise of this sudden demigration was as follows.
The action of coming into existence or notice. M17.
W. Jones The rise of a poet in their tribe. J. Martineau Concurrent with the rise of new questions.
Phrases: get a rise out of, take a rise out of provoke into a display of temper or indignation, esp. by teasing. give rise to bring about, cause. Irishman's rise: see IRISHMAN. make a rise (a) succeed in striking gold etc. by mining; (b) see sense 2 above. on the rise becoming more valuable or dearer; increasing. take a rise out of: see get a rise out of above. take one's rise (from) start or begin with in narration. the rise of US (now rare) more than (a specified amount).
Comb.: rise time Electronics the time required for a pulse to rise from 10 per cent to 90 per cent of its steady value.
? Recorded earlier in ME in surname and place-name.

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