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1. The action of rising from death or from the grave; resurrection. Now rare.
c. 1250. Creed, in Maskell, Mon. Rit. (1882), III. 251. Hy troue … forȝifnes of sinnes, uprisinge of fleyes.
c. 1290. S. Eng. Leg., I. 416/453. A-sonenday,… Þe day of mine oprisingue.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 8530. Bi þe vprisinge of god Robelin me ssal ise … stalwarde kniȝt be.
1340. Ayenb., 227. Ine þe oprisinge ne ssel by non spousynge.
c. 1400. Pepysian Gosp. Harmony (1922), 73. Þo asked Jesus ȝif þat sche leued it þat he was vprising and lyf.
c. 1440. Alph. Tales, 195. Ane heresye þat þan began at rise in þaim þat trustid not in vprysyng of flessh.
c. 1450. Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.), 371. Of his uprysyng he dede us lere Whan he walkyd with us in fere.
c. 1550. Cheke, Matt. xxii. 30. In ye vprising noyer schal men mari nor women be maried.
c. 1555. Harpsfield, Divorce Hen. VIII. (Camden), 38. By the death and uprising of Christ.
1648. Herrick, Hesper., ‘Here down,’ 11. At my up-rising next, I shall … thank ye all.
1852. Rock, Ch. of Fathers, I. ix. III. 322. The life, the death, the uprising of her divine Son.
2. a. The action of rising from bed.
a. 1300. K. Horn, 844. Horn … cam to þe kinge At his vprisinge.
c. 1430. Syr Gener. (Roxb.), 574. Ful erly in the morning The king made his vprising.
1518. H. Watson, Hist. Oliver of Castile (Roxb.), D 4 b. Erly in ye mornynge his seruauntes came to his chambre for to be at his vprysynge.
1578. H. Wotton, Courtlie Controv., 240. Hee … prayed them to goe vnto the kings vprising, and giue hym good morrowe.
a. 1628. Preston, New Cov. (1630), 80. How many there are at vprising and down-lying from day to day.
1675. Han. Woolley, Gentlew. Comp., 211. You ought … to … keep due hours for their [sc. children’s] up-rising and going to bed.
1827. Keble, Chr. Y., Morning, vi. New every morning is the love Our wakening and uprising prove.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, I. Introd. 2. The faint light [of dawn] … fell … on the hasty uprising of the hard-handed labourer.
b. The action of rising from a sitting, kneeling, or recumbent posture.
1521. Clerk in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. III. I. 265. The Master of the ceremonyes … causyd me to kysse his foott, and att myn vprising … his Holynes toke me by the sholders.
1535. Coverdale, Ps. cxxxviii. 2. Thou knowest my downe syttinge & my vprisynge.
1865. Sat. Rev., 5 Aug., 177. The down-sittings and uprisings of each day.
1893. A. S. Eccles, Sciatica, 78. Uprising from the couch is performed by the attendant grasping the patient’s extended hands.
† c. spec. The rising of a woman after confinement. Obs.
1611. Cotgr., Relevailles d’une femme, th’ vprising, or vpsitting, also the Churching, of a woman.
a. 1693. Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xli. 336. An uprising or Women Churching Treatment.
[1899. N. & Q., 9th Ser. III. 212. Child-Bed pew, another name for this was ‘uprising seat.’]
3. The action of rising after a fall. Also fig.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 11363. Þis child … Sal be to fel men in dun fall, And to fell in vprising.
c. 1330. Arth. & Merl., 9906 (Kölbing). Often þai made dounfalleing, & when þai miȝt, vpriseing.
a. 1375. Cursor M., 25821 (Fairf.). Squa-gate for þaire wanhoping þai falle wiþ-outin vprising.
a. 1555. Latimer, in Foxe, A. & M. (1563), 1310/1. For remembraunce of that fal and vprisyng kepeth vs in our fal from dispairing.
4. The rising of the sun; † also (quot. 1535), the quarter in which the sun rises.
c. 1330. Arth. & Merl. 3865 (Kölbing). In þe sonnes vpriseing Bigan, certes, þis rideing.
c. 1400. Three Kings Cologne (1886), 50. Þei come … in to Ierusalem … in þe vpperisyng of þe sunne.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, IV. 2050. Þe Grekis han, at Phebus vp-rysynge, I-armed hem with gret dilligence.
1471. Ripley, Comp. Alch., Rec., iv., in Ashm. (1652), 187. There is the uprysyng of the Son apperyng whyt and bryght.
1535. Coverdale, 2 Esdras xv. 20. All the kynges of ye earth which are from the vprysinge.
1598. Hakluyt, Voy., I. 59. The terrible noise, which the Sunne made at his vprising.
1665. Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), 64. Ecbar … gives those Rebels battel at the Suns first up-rising.
5. Advancement in place or power; improvement in position or circumstances.
1430–40. Lydg., Bochas, VIII. 467. Aftir tryumphes and ther uprisinges, What folwith aftir, hir [Fortune’s] wheel telle can.
1629. Prynne, Anti-Armin., 52. Who know no other passage to their owne secure vp-rising but by religions downefall.
1868. Atkinson, Cleveland Gloss., Uprising, a prosperous rise in one’s circumstances and condition; a getting on in the world.
6. A rise or ascent; a swelling; a welling-up.
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., IV. i. 2. Was that the King that spurd his horse so hard, Against the steepe vprising of the hill?
1611. Cotgr., Bosse,… any round swelling, vprising, or puffing vp.
1874. T. Hardy, Far fr. Mad. Crowd, lvi. Something big came into her throat and an uprising to her eyes.
† b. Arch. Elevation. Obs.–1
1669. trans. Scamozzi’s Mirr. Archit., 23. The half of the building on the ground…. The other half with the up-rising.
7. An insurrection; a popular rising against authority or for some common purpose.
1587. Holinshed, Chron., III. 37/2. It was a greefe to him still to be vexed with such tumults and vprisings as they dailie procured.
1842. W. L. Alexander, in Anti-Corn Law Conf., 88. Was it [the French Revolution] not the uprising of popular indignation against a monopoly of bread?
1861. M. Pattison, Ess. (1889), I. 45. The great communistic uprising under Wat Tyler in 1381.
1871. Freeman, Norm. Conq., xvii. IV. 54. Liable to be driven out whenever the whole nation should join together in one sudden and vigorous uprising.
8. The process or fact of coming into existence or notice.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xxxiii. 618. if they iudge it by the first vprysing of the Christian Religion.
a. 1591. H. Smith, Gods Arrow, iv. (1593), I 1 b. The beginning of Mahomets vprising, and of his Sect.
1634. Sir M. Sandys, Prudence, 251. Death is but … The uprising of Consolation, and the downe-setting of Perturbation.
1657. J. Watts, Vind. Ch. Eng., 101. The uprising of bloody Wars, and throwing down of Order.
1851. Brimley, Ess., Wordsw., 110. The uprising of a new aristocracy of wealth and intellect.
1871. Blackie, Four Phases, I. 27. The notable uprising of national spirit and of popular power.
