[UP- 4. Cf. WFris. oprize, MDu. oprisen (Du. oprijzen), MLG. uprisen (LG. uprîsen, MHG. ûfrîsen.]
1. intr. To rise to one’s feet; to assume a standing posture.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 2733. Quen þai war rest wel vp-ras þai.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., C. 378. He radly vp-ros & ran fro his chayer.
c. 1385. Chaucer, L. G. W., 1743, Lucrece. She anoon vp roos with blysful chere And kyssed hym.
1448–9. Metham, Amoryus & Cl., 1867. Hole and sound, with-owte wemme off yowre woundys, Nowe vp-ryse.
a. 1550[?]. Freiris of Berwik, 341 (Maitland Folio). Þan the freyr uprais, And tuk his buik ard to the flure he gayis.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. iv. 16. Suddein vpriseth from her stately place The royall Dame.
1715. Pope, Iliad, I. 95. Uprising slow, the venerable sage Thus spoke the prudence and the fears of age.
a. 1800. Cowper, Odyssey (ed. 2), XXIV. 496. Soon as on full seats The whole assembled senate sat, uprose Eupithes first.
1858. Merivale, Rom. Emp., liii. VI. 216. Then uprose Sabinus to advance his charges.
1870. Bryant, Iliad, I. I. 14. Now uprose Nestor, the master of persuasive speech.
fig. a. 1300. E. E. Psalter xxvi. 6. If vprise ogaine me fight, In þat sal i hope in might.
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., I. lxxxi. Ere War uprose in his volcanic rage.
1837. Mag. Nat. Hist., I. 13. The whole neighbourhood uprose in arms, till every bird of them was killed.
b. To rise from bed.
13[?]. Seuyn Sages (W.), 3181. Opon the morn the knyght vprase.
c. 1385. Chaucer, Reeve’s T., 329. Aleyn vprist and thoughte, er þat it dawe I wol go crepen In by my felawe.
1508. Dunbar, Thistle & Rose, 29. Quhairto … sall I vprys at morrow?
1513. Bradshaw, St. Werburge, I. 2544. She wolde vpryse at an houre conuenyent.
1526–a. 1628. [see DOWN-LIE v.].
1725. Pope, Odyss., VI. 59. Uprose the virgin with the morning light.
1878. Masque Poets, 95. It was a wicked Nephew bold Who upruse in the night.
2. Of the son: To rise.
The Chaucerian uprist (= upriseth) has by archaizing writers been taken as a past tense.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 1791. Al þat long niȝt, til it dawed to day & sunne to vp-rise.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Compl. Mars, 4. For when the sunne vprist then wol they sprede.
1471. Ripley, Comp. Alch., II. xii., in Ashm. (1652), 138. For there the Son wyth Day-lyght doth upryse In Somer.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, VII. iii. 56. First as the son wprysis.
1729. T. Cooke, Tales, etc., 136. The Critic took his Way, Slow pacing, homeward, and uprose the Day.
1798. Coleridge, Anc. Mar., II. iv. Nor dim nor red,… The glorious Sun uprist.
1818. Milman, Samor, X. 417. The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled Already from tall Pendle.
1880. W. S. Blunt, Love Sonn. Proteus, ci. Ere yet the sun uprist.
3. To rise from the dead.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 203. How he vprais, how he upstey, Many man on stod and sey.
c. 1340. Hampole, Pr. Consc., 5026. Alle þat er gude þan and rightwyse, Þat sal be save, sal first upryse.
c. 1440. York Myst., xxxvii. 31. I schall … on the thirde day ryght vprise.
1553. Poynet, Short Catech., 21 b. The third daye after, he vprose agayne, a lyue in bodye also.
1567. Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.), 78. Christ maid us Iust quhen he vprais.
1879. Arnold, Light of Asia, I. 3. The dead that are to live, the live who die, Uprise, and hear, and hope!
b. To come from the underworld.
a. 1550[?]. Freiris Berwik, 524 (Bann. MS.). I coniure the, That thow vprys and sone to me appeir.
c. 1743. Savage, On False Historians, 32. The devil … The sorcerer us’d to raise, the parson lay, When Echard wav’d his pen,… The parson conjur’d, and the fiend uprose.
1816. Shelley, Dæmon, II. 21. Erebus With all its banded fiends shall not uprise To overwhelm … The dauntless.
4. To rise or ascend to a higher level; to rise into view.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 21074. Þat erth … Men seis vprisand fra þe grund.
13[?]. Anticrist, 547. Þe dals [sal] uprise, þe fells dunfalle.
c. 1400. trans. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh., 89. For þou seez it [sc. an enchanted stone] vprys vpon waterys whenne þay rynne with þe wyndes.
1842. Tennyson, Vis. Sin, 208. Once more Uprose the mystic mountain range.
1858. Longf., M. Standish, V. 1. As the mists uprose from the meadows.
1867. Tennyson, Victim, 71. The rites prepared, the victim bared, The knife uprising toward the blow.
fig. a. 1300. Cursor M., 17474. All fals sal far þat ilk wise, And euer sal rightwisnes vprise.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, X. ix. 44. Be that gude beleif quhilk thou has eyk Of Ascanyvs vprysyng to estait.
1568. Charteris, Pref. to Lyndesay’s Wks. (1871), 13*. Cum, all degreis, in Lurdanerie quha lyis,… And lerne in vertew how for to vpryis!
b. To become erect.
1796. Scott, Wild Huntsman, xliv. Uprose the Wildgrave’s bristling hair.
1827. Praed, Red Fisherman, 77. ’Twas a sight to make the hair uprise.
5. To ascend as a sound.
1503. Dunbar, Thistle & Rose, 176. The commoun voce vprais of birdis small.
1838. Dickens, O. Twist, l. The crowd grew light with uncovered heads; and again the shout uprose.
1850. Blackie, Æschylus, I. 235. How shall my hymn uprise to bless thee?
1890. [see HALE sb.4 1].
6. To come into existence.
1471. Ripley, Comp. Alch., V. viii. (MS. Ashm. 1445). So ther shulde no frute be vprysinge.
1562. Winȝet, Cert. Tractatis, Wks. (S.T.S.), I. 25. I being drery and dolorus for the schisme … in Godis Kirk, and apperand temporal calamiteis to vpryse tharthrou.
1584. Southwell, Wks. (1828), II. 150. So infinite [are] the sects … into which it hath spread, besides new ones daily uprising.
1820. Shelley, Prometh. Unb., I. 82, I had clothed, since Earth uprose, Its wastes in colours not their own.
1880. Libr. Univ. Knowl., IX. 300. But now uprise some marvelous phenomena.
