ppl. a. [UP- 5. Cf. prec.]

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  1.  Raised or lifted up; elevated.

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c. 1400.  trans. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh., 117. Vpraysyd shuldren bytoknys sharpe nature.

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1785.  Wilkins, Bhagvat, xi. 90. The mighty compound and divine being Hărĕĕ, having O Rājā, thus spoken, made evident unto Ărjŏŏn his supreme and heavenly form; of many a mouth and eye; many a wondrous fight; many a heavenly ornament; many an up-raised weapon.

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1796.  Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, V. 476. The upraised arm of the form before her dropt.

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1853.  Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxii. (1856), 173. The thickness of the upraised tables.

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1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 204. He saw Hutkeeper leap at him, with upraised tomahawk.

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1898.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., V. 611. Osseous material … beneath the upraised periosteum.

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  b.  spec. in Geol. Raised by upheaval.

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1835.  Lyell, Princ. Geol. (ed. 4), II. 342. Near Uddevalla … we find upraised deposits of shells. Ibid. (1863), Antiq. Man, 45. These upraised strata … form a terrace.

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1877.  Huxley, Physiogr., 212. The upraised deposits of silt which skirt the estuary of the Clyde.

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  2.  Directed upwards.

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1851.  D. Jerrold, St. Giles, xii. 124. The big tears that rolled from her upraised eyes.

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  3.  Sounded aloud.

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1871.  S. B. James, Duty & Doctrine (ed. 3), 173. Penitence … must mingle with the upraised notes of gladness.

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