v. [UP- 4. Cf. OE. uphebban, ME. uphebbe, = OFris. op-, upheva (WFris. opheevje), (M)Du. opheffen, MLG. upheven, LG. upheffen, OHG. ûfhevan (MHG. ûfheben, G. aufheben), MSw. uphäfia, ophävia, etc. (Sw. upphäfva, -häva), (M)Da. ophæve.]
1. trans. To heave or lift up; to raise; † to exalt.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter iii. 3. Lauerd, mi fanger art þou in lande, Mi blisse, and mi heued vpheueande [L. exaltans]. Ibid., cxliv. 1. I sal vpheue þe, god.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xliii. (Cecilia), 94. Þe ald his handis … Vphewit to þe hewine rycht þare.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 1570. Arcita anon his hand vp haf.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, XIII. x. 21. The fader Eneas … His handis bayth vphevis towartis hevin.
1563. Mirr. Mag., R iv. Vp heauing to the skyes Her wretched handes.
1592. Shaks., Ven. & Ad., 482. Her two blew windowes faintly she vpheaueth.
1620. Quarles, Feast for Worms, § 12. No sooner Titan had vp-heau’d his head From off the pillow.
1676. Hobbes, Iliad, I. 429. Chryses pray’d with hands to Heaven upheaved.
1736. Gray, Statius, I. 15. Another orb upheaved his strong right hand.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, IV. 504. The waves by Zephyrus up-heaved.
1817. Monthly Mag., XLIII. 237. Couch’d on the shore his head and shoulders twain, Uphcaves a giant shape.
1850. Blackie, Æschylus, II. 69. Let the sea upheave her billows!
1855. Browning, Saul, xiv. While Hebron upheaves The dawn … on his shoulder.
b. esp. To toss or throw up with violence; spec. in Geol.
1708. J. Philips, Cyder, I. 202. Th’ infernal winds … from beneath the solid mass Upheav’d.
1809. Wordsw., Poems Nat. Indep., II. xvi. War upheaved The ground beneath thee with volcanic force.
1813. Bakewell, Introd. Geol. (1815), 234. Some great convulsion has upheaved from their foundations … the whole mass of the chalk rocks.
1867. Lady Herbert, Cradle L., vii. 194. There are masses of stone and brick … lying about as if upheaved and overturned by some tremendous earthquake.
fig. 1835. I. Taylor, Spir. Despot., i. 16. Let the infidel and the Dissenter join hands in upheaving the Church.
1854. J. S. C. Abbott, Napoleon (1855), I. i. 23. The portentous rumblings of that approaching earthquake, which soon uphove both altar and throne.
† 2. = UPLIFT v. 4, RAISE v.1 13. Obs.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter xcii. 4. Þai vphoue, louerd, stremes euen, Vphoued stremes þair steuen.
a. 1593. Marlowe, Ovid’s Elegies, III. v. 52. The bold floud … his hoarse voice vpheau’d, Saying, [etc.].
3. intr. To rise up.
1649. Lovelace, Lucasta (1904), 99. The July-flow’r…, But for one look of her, upheaves.
a. 1826. J. Hyatt, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., IV. 108. To represent human nature as upheaving under its load.
1850. B. Taylor, Eldorado, I. 170. The surface of the bay … upheaved with a slow, majestic movement.
1893. Scribner’s Mag., XIII. 92/1. Along the west it upheaves into the fine Valles range.
4. trans. To support, sustain. rare–1.
1729. Savage, Wanderer, IV. 170. Pillars … Which, nodding, just up-heave their crumbling load.
Hence Upheaved ppl. a., Upheavement, Upheaver, Upheaving vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1847. Emerson, Ode to Channing, 30. If earth fire cleave The *upheaved land, and bury the folk.
1859. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 10. The upheaved sea beach … which forms the esplanade.
1866. G. Macdonald, Ann. Q. Neighb., xiii. Each like one million-petalled flower of upheaved whiteness.
1841. Trimmer, Pract. Geol., 56. It was the agent employed in the *upheavement of chains of mountains.
1864. Reader, 5 March, 301/3. After the last upheavement of the Alps, great fissures or basins of lakes were left there.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 7 b/1. An Elevatorium [marg. or *vpheaver], to lift vp the bullet and drawe him therout.
1872. Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. lxv. 6. Philosophers … too much engrossed with their laws of upheaval to think of the Upheaver.
1892. Graphic, 18 June, 731/3. The pullers up of streets and the upheavers of footways.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol., I. 231. Great *upheavings of the coast.
1856. Stanley, Sinai & Pal., i. 23. The traces of igneous action on the granite rocks belong to their first upheaving. Ibid. (1863), Jew. Ch., xiii. 285. The Conquest was over, but the upheavings of the conquered population still continued.
1880. McCarthy, Own Times, xli. III. 226. All over the world there seemed to be an upheaving of old systems.
1821. Atherstone, Poems, 72. Ocean monsters, from their beds … Torn by th’ *upheaving billows to the day.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxxii. (1856), 282. I mounted the upheaving ice, and rode upon the fragments.
1881. W. Stephens, Chichester, 158. [They] could not foresee what mighty and upheaving changes were at hand.
