v. (UP- 4.) Also Upbuilded, -built; -builder; -building.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, VIII. iv. 191. Potitius … Ȝone altar in this cuchill did vpbeild.
1570. Satir. Poems Reform., xxii. 43. This bailfull bird richt beinly can vpbeild … hir noysum nest.
1850. Blackie, Æschylus, I. 235. I will upbuild His house who honours thee.
1890. J. Pulsford, Loyalty to Christ, I. 47. We … should be careful to … upbuild our energies, equally from God and from Nature.
1865. J. H. Ingraham, Pilar of Fire, xvi. 188. Each [pyramid], had not the others been *upbuilded, would have been a marvel of grandeur.
1882. Proc. Soc. Psychical Research, I. II. 149. The science of zoology could not have been upbuilt without it.
1865. E. Burritt, Walk to Land’s End, 409. The chief *upbuilders of the place in its industrial enterprise.
1732. E. Erskine, Wks. (1791), 647/2. A whole Trinity … lay themselves out … for the *upbuilding of this house.
1876. Fairbairn, in Contemp. Rev., June, 138. What he terms its development or upbuilding may be termed its diseased growth.
1898. B. Gregory, Side Lights Confl. Meth., 379. On the whole, the impression by this One Hundred and First Conference on an eager and enthusiastic neophyte was in a high degree arousing, heartening, bracing and upbuilding.
