adv. Obs. Forms: see THERE and UP; also 3 þruppe. [Late OE. þǽr uppan (þǽr there, uppan upon, on) would give ME. *þer uppen, þeruppe, and in 14th c. þerup; but these might also be new formations from uppe, UP.]

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  1.  Up on that, upon that (place or thing); up in or into that place; up there, up above. In quots. c. 1230, above (on the page or in the document).

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  α.  c. 1000.  Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xxx. 200. Him wæs his myxen forlæten þæt he þær uppan sittan mihte.

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c. 1230.  Hali Meid., 39. Ich habbe ihalden mine beheaste þruppe. Ibid. Forsac þi fader hus as hit is þeruppe iopenet.

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c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 1609. Ðe louerd ðor uppe a-buuen Lened ðor on.

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c. 1300.  St. Brandan, 123. Bord and cloth i-sprad, And bred and fisch ther uppe.

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c. 1315.  Shoreham, i. 41. Howe mey þat be? wo dar þer oppe steiȝe?

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  β.  1572.  Buchanan, Detect. Q. Mary, U iij. I haue wakit laiter thairvp [Fr. là haut] then I wald haue done, if it had nat bene [etc.].

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1829.  A. Clarke, in Life, xiii. (1840), 478. Collectors … to take silver from all who should go thereup.

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  2.  = THEREUPON 2, 3.

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  α.  a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 42. Hwo so wule mei a-stunten þeruppe anon rihtes efter þe uorme ureisun.

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c. 1290.  Beket, 447, in S. Eng. Leg., I. 119. Heo wollez þanne mis-don al day and beon þare-oppe wel bolde.

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1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 8084. [Robert] borewede þer uppe [v.r. c. 1400 þer vpon] of him an hondred þousend marc.

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a. 1325.  MS. Rawl. B., 520, lf. 32. Þat a non riȝt … be i-mad so uers siute þer oppe fram toune to toune.

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  β.  1375.  (MS. 1487) Barbour, Bruce, x. 433. Sic melle tharup can he mak.

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1430.  W. Paston, in P. Lett., I. 30. And there up to graunte your worthy lettres.

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  3.  Over and above that, in addition to that.

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1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 716. Ȝif þou wole ȝut þer vppe more esse [= ask] & wite of me. Ibid., 1085. Þanne aȝt it be inou … Loue & frendssipe to aski us … þei þou ne askedest þer vppe þralhede euere mo.

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