take one's rise

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take one's rise (third-person singular simple present takes one's rise, present participle taking one's rise, simple past took one's rise, past participle taken one's rise)

  1. To originate.
    • 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 34:
      Two miles from the summit is the spring from which the Colorado River takes its rise.
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