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upˈrear, v.
[up- 4. Cf. OE. uprǽrend pres. pple.]
1. trans. To raise up, elevate, erect, etc.
a1300E.E. Psalter cxliv. 14 Lauerd raises alle þat doune falle, And þe hurt he vprers [L. erigit] alle. c1400R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 6509 (MS. α), He..chirchen let vprere þat were arst as uorlore. 1563Mirr. Mag. R ij b, The Percian kyng..With his huge host that..Dismounted hilles, and made the vales vprere. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. x. 50 Next to her sate goodly Shamefastnesse, Ne euer durst her eyes from ground vpreare. 1597Beard Theatre God's Judgem. (1612) 80 Ieroboam..as he had..vpreared a new kingdome, so..vpreared also a new religion. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 67 The great Lampe of light up-rearing his flaming head above the earth. 1667Milton P.L. i. 532 Then [he] strait commands that..be upreard His mighty Standard. 1718Rowe tr. Lucan i. 259 So in the field..Uprears some antient Oak his rev'rend head. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. i. xxxi, Ah! how shall I for this uprear my moulted wing? 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. xlv, For Time hath..up⁓rear'd Barbaric dwellings on their shatter'd site. 1842Borrow Bible in Spain xxvi, Millions of maize plants upreared their tall stalks. 1898Watts-Dunton Aylwin v. ii, A cobra uprearing its head to spring at her.
refl.1616R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) 36 When she doth vprear Her selfe vpon her feet.
fig.1840J. C. Mangan Poems (1903) 185 See the palace-dome its pride uprearing One fleet hour!
b. To raise in dignity; to exalt.
1382Wyclif Isaiah xxxiii. 10 Now I shal ben enhauncid, now I shal ben vp rered [L. sublevabor]. c1400Cato's Morals in Cursor M. App. iv. 192 Wiþ lernyng & teyching growes graiþ kunnyng, & mani man vp-rered. 1566Sternhold & H., etc. Ps. cxii. 2 His seede on earth God wil vp⁓reare. 1592Kyd Sp. Trag. ii. i, Yet might she loue me to upreare her state. 1872Tennyson Last Tourn. 122 My realm, uprear'd, By noble deeds at one with noble vows.
2. To bring up, tend in growing.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 561 Hym rwed þat he hem vprerde & raȝt hem lyflode. c1440Pallad. on Husb. iii. 303 To thicke vppon the tre do not the vyne, And yf on faile vprere another tre. 1833H. Martineau Fr. Wines & Pol. iv. 67 Here were..little children upreared by their mothers amidst the fire and smoke.
3. To rouse, stir up, excite.
1486Bk. St. Albans e iiij, How many maner beestys as with the lymere Shall be vpreryde in fryth or in felde. a1600Flodden F. iv. (1664) 40 His rancor old it was up-rear'd. 1795Macneill Waes o' War ii. v, Is it nature, vice, or folly,..Hate, revenge, and rage uprears?
4. intr. To rise up.
1828Atherstone Fall of Nineveh I. 48 Myriads of bright harnessed steeds Were seen uprearing. 1868Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 274 A great black fold against him did uprear. |