[UP- 4. Cf. MDu. opgaen (Du. opgaan), MLG. upgân, MHG. ufgän, -gen (G. aufgehen), MSw. up(p)ga, op(p)ga, -gaa (Sw. uppgå), MDa. and Da. opgaa.] intr. To go up; to ascend, mount.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 1608. Iacob … saȝ…, Fro ðe erðe up…, A leddre stonden, and ðor-on Angeles dun-cumen and up-gon.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., XI. 139. The tendir plaunte is take anoon & blyue Vpgoth.
c. 1475. Golagros & Gaw., 1151. He gart schir Gawyne vpga.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, VIII. i. 57. Quhill in the ayr vpgois the tuynkilland lycht.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, XVII. xl. He ceas’d, and then a murmur lowd vp went With noise of ioy.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, XIII. 1016. Upwent the double roar into the heights Ethereal.
1830. Wordsw., Egyptian Maid, 183. Then up-went Into the ethereal element The Birds.
