Uprear

v. [UP- 4 Cf. OE. uprǽrend pres. pple.]

  1.  trans. To raise up, elevate, erect, etc.

a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter cxliv. 14. Lauerd raises alle þat doune falle, And þe hurt he vprers [L. erigit] alle.

c. 1400.  R. Gloucester’s Chron. (Rolls), 6509 (MS. α). He … chirchen let vprere þat were arst as uorlore.

1563.  Mirr. Mag., R ij b. The Percian kyng … With his huge host that … Dismounted hilles, and made the vales vprere.

1596.  Spenser, F. Q., IV. x. 50. Next to her sate goodly Shamefastnesse, Ne euer durst her eyes from ground vpreare.

1597.  Beard, Theatre God’s Judgem. (1612), 80. Ieroboam … as he had … vpreared a new kingdome, so … vpreared also a new religion.

1638.  Junius, Paint. Ancients, 67. The great Lampe of light up-rearing his flaming head above the earth.

1667.  Milton, P. L., I. 532. Then [he] strait commands that … be upreard His mighty Standard.

1718.  Rowe, trans. Lucan, I. 259. So in the field … Uprears some antient Oak his rev’rend head.

1748.  Thomson, Cast. Indol., I. xxxi. Ah! how shall I for this uprear my moulted wing?

1818.  Byron, Ch. Har., IV. xlv. For Time hath … uprear’d Barbaric dwellings on their shatter’d site.

1842.  Borrow, Bible in Spain, xxvi. Millions of maize plants upreared their tall stalks.

1898.  Watts-Dunton, Aylwin, V. ii. A cobra uprearing its head to spring at her.

  refl.  1616.  R. C., Times’ Whistle (1871), 36. When she doth vprear Her selfe vpon her feet.

  fig.  1840.  Mangan, Poems (1903), 185. See the palace-dome its pride uprearing One fleet hour!

  b.  To raise in dignity; to exalt.

1382.  Wyclif, Isaiah xxxiii. 10. Now I shal ben enhauncid, now I shal ben vp rered [L. sublevabor].

c. 1400.  Cato’s Morals, in Cursor M., App. iv. 192. Wiþ lernyng & teyching growes graiþ kunnyng, & mani man vp-rered.

1566.  Sternhold & H., etc., Ps. cxii. 2. His seede on earth God wil vpreare.

1592.  Kyd, Sp. Trag., II. i. Yet might she loue me to upreare her state.

1872.  Tennyson, Last Tourn., 122. My realm, uprear’d, By noble deeds at one with noble vows.

  2.  To bring up, tend in growing.

13[?].  E. E. Allit. P., B. 561. Hym rwed þat he hem vprerde & raȝt hem lyflode.

c. 1440.  Pallad. on Husb., III. 303. To thicke vppon the tre do not the vyne, And yf on faile vprere another tre.

1833.  Ht. Martineau, Fr. Wines & Pol., iv. 67. Here were … little children upreared by their mothers amidst the fire and smoke.

  3.  To rouse, stir up, excite.

1486.  Bk. St. Albans, e iiij. How many maner beestys as with the lymere Shall be vpreryde in fryth or in felde.

a. 1600.  Flodden F., iv. (1664), 40. His rancor old it was up-rear’d.

1795.  H. MacNeill, Waes o’ War, II. v. Is it nature, vice, or Folly,… Hate, revenge, and rage uprears?

  4.  intr. To rise up.

1828.  Atherstone, Fall of Nineveh, I. 48.

1868.  Morris, Earthly Par., I. I. 274. A great black fold against him did uprear.