v. [UP- 4. Cf. Du. opgaderen.] trans. To gather up, to collect. Also Upgathered ppl. a., -gathering vbl. sb.
1590. Spenser, Muiopot., 397. Himselfe he close vpgathered more and more Into his den. Ibid. (1590), F. Q., III. vi. 19. Soone her garments loose Vpgath’ring, in her bosome she comprized, Well as she might.
1807. Wordsw., Misc. Sonn., I. xxxiii. The winds … are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers.
1824. Examiner, 650/2. I must upgather to the strife the reason that remains.
1851. Longf., Gold. Leg., i. ad fin. The stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts.
1883. Ruskin, in Collingwood, Life (1893), I. 223. Any poor little piece of *upgathered silver of my own.
1884. J. Parker, Apost. Life, III. 173. A marvellous *upgathering and focalising of information.
