▪ I. † upˈrist, n. Obs.
[up- 2 + -rist rising: see arist n. 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. ? 1444 Ibid. 153 Geyn Phebus uprist syngen wyl the quaylle. 1555 W. 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. |
▪ II. uprist, pa. pple.
archaizing var. uprisen.
| 1579 Spenser Sheph. Cal. Mar. 18 Flora..bids make ready Maias bowre, That newe is vpryst from bedde. 1887 C. Mackay in Temple Bar Mag. June 178, I could trace their pallid features In the moonlight, new up-rist. |