[UP- 2.]

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  1.  The process or fact of growing up; origination, development.

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1844.  S. Wilberforce, Hist. Prot. Episc. Ch. Amer., i. 2. The up-growth of such a body amongst institutions so unlike our own.

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1869.  A. W. Haddan, Apost. Succession, v. 104. The speedy upgrowth … of contentions and schisms.

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  2.  That which has grown up; a result of growth or development.

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1845.  Trench, Huls. Lect., ii. 26. The parts of it being the upgrowth of a single age.

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1873.  Manning, Serm. Eccl. Subj., III. p. lxxxiv. The International is a new creation or upgrowth from beneath.

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  b.  spec. A raised growth or process.

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1870.  Rolleston, Anim. Life, 11. The … sixth and seventh [lateral processes] have prominent upgrowths.

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1893.  Bower, in Phil. Trans., B. CLXXXV. 504. Evidence … of the origin of upgrowths (sporangiophores) which would raise the sporangia beyond the surface.

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