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† ˈupsitten, ppl. a. Sc. Obs.
[up- 5.]
Inactive, indifferent, callous.
1682Peden Lord's Trumpet (1739) 16 The Lord..hath been crying to You in these Lands (and namelie to thee upsitten Scotland) to watch with him. 1728P. Walker Life Peden (1827) Pref. 27 These backslidden, upsitten, lukewarm Ministers, Elders and Professors. Ibid. 61 The Indulged, Backslidden and Upsitten Ministers of Scotland. [1896Stevenson Weir of Hermiston v, The sister of the gardener..had shown herself ‘upsitten’.] |