| 释义 |
upˈsteer, v. Now dial.
[up- 4.]
trans. To stir up; to throw into turmoil or disorder.
1557T. Phaer æneid vi. (1558) S j, What slaughters wyld shall they vpsteere? 1570Satir. Poems Reform. xi. 38 Wa worth the wit that first began This deir debait for to vpsteir. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 273 His Nobilis..he vpsteiris to take Weapounis. 1889N.W. Linc. Gloss. (ed. 2) 589 All th' rooms was upsteer'd.
Hence upˈsteerer. rare—1.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 413 That ȝe suld be the..author and vpsteirer of thir tumultes. |