[UP- 7, or f. UPLIFT v.]
1. The action of raising or lifting up; an instance of this. Also fig.
1548. Geste, Pr. Masse, H iv. Can ther be made to god … an effectual prayer withoute an vplyftinge of oure hartes vnto hym?
1650. Metr. Psalms Ch. Scot., cxli. 2. Let … the uplifting of my hands [be] as th’ evening sacrifice.
1834. Tait’s Mag., I. 693/1. An uplifting of the horse’s hind heels.
1844. Kinglake, Eöthen, xv. There was an uplifting of arms, and a repeating of words.
1886. Hall Caine, Son of Hagar, I. v. With an eloquent uplifting of the hand.
b. Geol. Elevation in level; an upheaval.
1833–4. J. Phillips, Geol., in Encycl. Metrop. (1845), VI. 685/2. The uplifting of the Western Alps.
1855. Orr’s Circ. Sci., Inorg. Nat. 51. The uplifting and dislocation of strata.
1881. Q. Rev., July, 102. Upliftings and downcasts of strata.
2. Sc. Collection, levying (of rents, etc.).
1594. in Spalding Club Misc., I. 9. All receaving vplifting vptacking or intrometting with off ony maillis.
1640. Kirkcudbr. War-Comm. Min. Bk. (1855), 128. Unless your lordship caus hasten the uplifting and peyment of all that is dew.
1706. in J. J. Vernon, Parish of Hawick (1900), 201. Collectors for the uplifting and in bringing of the stent.
3. The action of the verb, in various senses.
1824. Scott, Redgauntlet, ch. xii. There was heard within the uplifting of a Scottish psalm. Ibid. (1826), Woodst., v. A crowning mercy—a vouchsafing—an uplifting.
1899. A. C. Benson, Life E. W. Benson, II. 232. They excluded a source of sacred pleasure and divine uplifting from their lives.
