pa. pple. and ppl. a. [UP- 5 or f. prec.]
† 1. Excited in feeling; angry. Obs.
1382. Wyclif, Prov. xv. 18. A man … who is pacient, swageth the vprered [L. suscitatas].
2. Raised up, elevated, erected, etc.
1422. Yonge, trans. Secreta Secret., 222. A grete breste and brode, vprerid and sumwhate fatte. Ibid., 223. Shamel[e]s men [have] hey vprerid shuldris.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 5. His swerd upreryd, proudly gave manace.
a. 1593. Marlowe & Nashe, Dido, III. iv. I … vow … Neuer to leaue these newe vpreared walles, Whiles Dido liues.
1597. Hall, Sat., I. iii. 11. On crowned kings … Or some vpreared, high-aspiring swaine.
1602. Marston, Antonio’s Rev., IV. iii. With innocent upreared armes to Heaven.
1798. Landor, Gebir, I. 228. The long moon-beam on the hard wet sand Lay like a jaspar column half uprear’d.
1848. A. Clough, Amours de Voy., III. 14. Where, over fig-tree and orange…, Garden on garden upreared, balconies step to the sky.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., III. IV. 330. In front of me An upreared changing dark bulk did I see.
