Now rare or arch. (superseded by SUNRISE). [f. SUN sb. + pr. pple. or gerund of RISE v., partly after F. soleil levant.] = prec. (In early use often with the.)
c. 1250. Kent. 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].
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 9237. To morn atte sonne rysyng.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VIII. xiv. (1495), V v b/2. Venus … warnyth that ye daye comyth anone and the sonne rysynge [orig. solis ortum].
1481. Caxton, Godfrey, cxxxvii. 205. That alle man shold be in the mornyng to fore the sonne rysynge alle armed.
1565. Reg. Privy Council Scot., Ser. I. I. 344. Befoir the sone rysing in the morning.
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., V. iii. 61. Bid him bring his power Before Sun-rising.
1600. Dallam, in Early Voy. Levant (Hakluyt Soc.), 96. At the son risinge we paste by Cape Sprott.
a. 1635. Naunton, Fragm. Reg. (Arb.), 31. The most glorious Sun-risings are subject to shadowings and droppings in.
1709. Addison, Tatler, No. 20, ¶ 4. Where he may be seen from Sun-rising to Sun-setting.
1770. Langhorne, Plutarch (1879), I. 169/1. The wind used to blow hard from the mountains at sunrising.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), IV. 207. The next morning, about sunrising, his sight was restored.
1883. Miss M. 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, winter sunrising.
c. 1420. Prose Life Alex., 76. We seke to ferre towarde þe son rysynge.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. xi. 14. Or for till ettyll into Inde … Towart the dawing and son rysing to seyk.
1570–6. Lambarde, Peramb. Kent (1826), 3. Nearest to the Sunne risinge and furthest from the Northe Pole.
1601. Holland, 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.
1654–66. Earl Orrery, Parthen. (1676), 531. We might perceive all those Plains towards the Sun-rising covered with Troops.
1726. Leoni, Alberti’s Archit., I. 98/1. Bed-chambers for summer shou’d look to the South, the Parlours, to the Winter Sunrising.
1868. Holme Lee, B. Godfrey, xix. 110. The shadowed side towards the sunrising.
c. attrib. or quasi-adj.
a. 1618. Raleigh, Inv. Shipping (1650), 13. The French and Spanish called the sun rising winds, East … and the sunne setting winds West.
1725. Fam. Dict., s.v. Hen-House, The Windows should be on the Sun-Rising side, strongly lathed.
