v. [UP- 4. Cf. MDa. opgro.] intr. To grow up, spring up; fig. to increase.

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c. 1430.  Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 246. In his encrees up-growynge as a flour.

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c. 1440.  Pallad. on Husb., VII. 77. Yf me wete Her lond, vpgroweth now this herbis sete.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneid, XI. xi. 14. Ne this luf … of layt in Dyanis breist vpgrew. Ibid., XII. viii. 116. Than mair in greif and ire vpgrowis he.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., IV. 137. Over head up grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade.

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1791.  Cowper, Iliad, II. 810. Tlepolemus spear-famed Had scarce up-grown to manhood’s lusty prime.

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1848.  Clough, Amours de Voy., III. 90. The cypress-spires … Withering still at the sight which still they upgrow to encounter.

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1867.  Ld. Houghton, Ess. Reform, 56. Disappointment was not the soil from which a desire for further change upgrew.

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