† uphighv.
Obsolete. Chiefly Scottish.
transitive. To exalt; to raise up.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (transitive)] > attach importance to > make more important
arearc885
upheavea1300
upraisea1300
uphigh13..
enhancec1325
liftc1330
uplift1338
uphebbe1340
uptakec1340
magnifya1382
upreara1382
uphancec1390
preponder?1504
upbring1513
exaggerate1564
greaten1589
weighc1595
to make much matter ofa1649
aggravate1698
aggrandize1709
beef1941
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > raise
heave971
hevenOE
onheaveOE
rearOE
highOE
arearc1175
to set above (also aloft, high, on high)c1275
upbraidc1275
to set upc1290
lifta1300
upheavea1300
upraisea1300
upreara1300
enhancec1300
araise1303
hance1303
uplifta1340
lift1362
raisec1384
upbear1390
uphancec1390
advancea1393
haut?a1400
to put upa1400
verec1400
hainc1440
inhigh1483
elevate1497
uphigh1513
alifta1522
height1530
heighten1530
exalt1535
extol1549
sublevate1559
rouse?1567
attol1578
elate1578
vaunce1582
dight1590
higher1592
tower1596
to fetch up1612
relevate1620
screwa1625
transcend1635
stilt1649
allevate1696
stiltify1860
13.. Prose Psalter (1891) 190 Heȝe [v.r. uphie] him in þe worldel!
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Trial of Fox l. 938 in Poems (1981) 39 The lawest heir I can full sone vp hie.
1508 W. Dunbar Ballade Barnard Stewart in Poems (1998) I. 177 Onto the sterris vpheyt is thyne honour.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. i. 72 Tyburinus, furth of the styll river,..hymself vpheis.
1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1890) II. 58 Be zeris it mot be strenthit,..and be aige vpheit.
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