[UP- 7.]
1. The action of coming up, in various senses.
13[?]. Guy Warw. (A.), 7240. Þe best him neyed, & smot him Wiþ his vp-coming so fel & grim [etc.].
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter, lxxii. 19. Þai fal downe þat lang tyme had in vpcomminge.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), V. 229. Me dradde þe arryvynge and upcomynge of straunge men.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), II. 700. Of the Scrymgeouris and thair Vpcuming.
a. 1575. Diurn. Occurr. (Bann. Cl.), 109. In thair vpcuming my lord of Ergyle bare the croun.
1654. Wariston, Diary (S.H.S.), II. 292. This checked me in the up-coming out of Leyth.
1746. E. Erskine, Serm. (1755), 391. The Up-coming of the Breaker is with much awful Majesty.
1862. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XIII. ix. III. 524. In his young time he had a hard upcoming.
1889. Athenæum, 29 June, 831/2. Half-lights reveal on the surface the upcoming of eddies in films from below.
† 2. Sc. An ascent, an upward path. Obs. (Cf. UPCOME sb. 1.)
1375. Barbour, Bruce, VI. 81. Sua strate wes þe vp-cummyng, Þat twa men mycht nocht sammyn thryng. Ibid., 170.
