[UP-2. Cf. ON. upprisa (MSw. uprisa, Sw. uppresa), rising up, resurrection.]
† 1. Resurrection. Obs.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 1479. Wit þair vpris fra ded to lijf. Ibid., 18571. Þan bigan þai to bede þam hightes For to lei of his vp-rise.
2. a. Rising (of the sun, etc.); dawn (of day).
1588. Shaks., Tit. A., III. i. 159. A Larke, That giues sweet tydings of the Sunnes vprise.
1600. S. Nicholson, Acolastus’ After-witte, A 4. Faire Queene Aurora,… Whose blithsome vp-rise makes Nights prisoners blest.
1635. Heywood, Hierarchy, III. Comm. 183. Because the Sunne in his mornings vprise looketh red and blushing.
1674. J. W[right], Seneca’s Thyestes, 71. Father of gods and men, at whose Uprise Night doth her beauty loose.
1794. Southey, Elinor, 11. When in better years poor Elinor Gazed on thy glad uprise with eye undimm’d By guilt.
1818. Shelley, Eugan. Hills, 73. The pæan With which the legioned rooks did hail The sun’s uprise majestical.
a. 1851. Moir, Poems, Mine Own, i. Alike at orient day’s uprise, And pensive shut of night.
† b. The act of rising from bed. Obs.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., XII. iv. Musick and base flattering tongues, which wait to first-salute my Lords uprise.
c. The act of rising to a higher level; ascent.
1690. C. Nesse, O. & N. Test., I. 126. The dreadful downfal, as well as up-rise, of the waters.
1817. Shelley, Rev. Islam, XII. xvi. A blood-red gleam Burst upwards…. I heard the mighty sound Of its uprise.
1882. Geikie, Text-bk. Geol., VI. v. 900. An intermittent uprise of the land.
d. The beginning of an ascent; an ascending shaft in a mine.
1875. Browning, Aristophanes’ Apol., 334. Now bound For Dorion, at the uprise … Of Mount Pangaios.
1877. Raymond, Statist. Mines & Mining, 174. Fifty feet in from the mouth of the tunnel an uprise was made.
3. a. Ascent to power or dignity; rise to wealth or importance.
1810. Jane Porter, Scot. Chiefs, x. At the fall of Dunbar … he again founded his uprise on the ruins of his country.
1877. N. W. Linc. Gloss., 265. The uprise o’ that family was th’ inclosures.
b. The act of coming into existence or notice; origination.
1817. Shelley, Rev. Islam, VII. ii. Awakened from that dreamy mood By Liberty’s uprise.
1844. Thackeray, Wks. (1886), XXIII. 205. The young painters … whose uprise this Magazine and this critic were the first to hail.
1862. F. Hall, Hindu Philos. Syst., 240. The uprise of a new … affection of the internal organ.
1875. Whitney, Life Lang., vi. 107. The uprise of the class of prepositions.
