take its rise

English

Verb

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

1. (dated, idiomatic) To originate
   • 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, in Emily of New Moon:

     “I’m glad I’m only half Murray,” she said to herself. Aloud—“Father told me it was a Murray tradition not to carry spite past the grave.”
     “So ’tis now—but it took its rise from this very thing. His family were so horrified at it, you see. It made considerable of a scandal. Some folks twisted it round to mean that old Hugh didn’t believe in the resurrection, and there was talk of the session taking it up, but after a while the talk died away.”