Obs. [UP- 2 + -rist rising; see ARIST sb. Cf. OIcel. uppreist, MSw. uprest.]
1. Rising from the dead; resurrection.
c. 1250. Song Passion, 79, in O. E. Misc., 199. Grante ous, crist, wit þin uprist to gone.
a. 1290. St. Eustace, 173, in Horstm., Altengl. Leg. (1881), 215. Euere he þouhte on Jhesu Crist On his deþ, on his ouprist.
c. 1315. Shoreham, V. 188. Þe þrydde ioye þat com of cryste Hadde oure leuedy of hys opryste Fram deaþes harde bende.
c. 1400. Pepysian Gosp. Harmony (1922), 111. Þe deciples … assembleden hem in a soleer … vpe þe fourtiþe day after his vpryst.
a. 1425. Cursor M., 14264 (Trin.). Ihesus seide I am vpriste [earlier MSS. vpris, -ras] & lif.
c. 1450. Mirk’s Festial, I. 80. Forto be wyttenes of his [sc. Christ’s] vprist wyth vs.
2. The rising of the sun.
a. 1300. K. Horn, 1436. Tofore þe sunne vpriste His schup stod vnder ture.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 193. In the gardyn at the sonne vpriste She walketh vp and doun.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 23. When the larke … Salveth the uprist of the sonne shene. Ibid. (c. 1444), 153. Ceyn Phebus uprist syngen wyl the quaylle.
1555. Watreman, Fardle Facions, I. iv. 43. Certeine of theim worshippe the Sonne at his vprijste.
1625. Lisle, Du Bartas, Noe, 132. Both at the suns uprist, and where he goes to bed.
3. The act of rising out of bed.
13[?]. Seuyn Sages (W.), 1649. Out of mi lond I rede thou flee,… For, abide thou min uprist, Thou be honged!
1390. Gower, Conf., I. 116. At his upriste Men tolden him how that it ferde.
