[UP- 8.] One who raises up.
c. 1440. Wycliffite Bible, 2 Sam. xxii. 3. (MS. Bodl. 277). Þe horn of myn helþe, myn upreiser [L. elevator], and my refuyt.
c. 1440. Jacobs Well, 59. Alle comoun baratours, vprayserys of vnryȝfull batayles.
1533. Gau, Richt Vay, 88. Iesus christus is the veray wprayser of al marcie and grace.