[f. UPLIFT v.]

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  † 1.  Sc. A collector (of rents, etc.). Obs.

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1585–6.  Reg. Privy Council Scot., IV. 47. The upliftaris of the said taxt.

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1641.  Kirkcudbr. War-Comm. Min. Bk. (1855), 159. He hes constituted the said James Montgomerie uplifter thairof [sc. of the king’s rents].

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  2.  One who raises or elevates.

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1650.  Metr. Psalms Ch. Scot., iii. 3. Yet thou my shield, and glory art, th’ uplifter of mine head.

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1884.  Tennyson, Becket, I. i. Henry the King hath been … mine uplifter in this world.

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1890.  J. Pulsford, Loyalty to Christ, I. 57. Henceforth he should be a man of influence, and a great uplifter of men.

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