Past tense of arride; smiled upon or favored someone with approval.
From Latin 'arrisus' (past participle of 'arridere'). This archaic past tense preserves the Latin stem in English historical and literary texts.
In medieval literature, when a nobleman 'arrided' a peasant, it was such a remarkable event that scribes recorded it—a moment of royal or aristocratic approval was rare enough to be worth documenting.
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