upˈsprung, pa. pple.
(up- 5. Cf. upspring v.)
| c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 6 Soþlice upsprungenre sunnan hiᵹ adruwudon. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 3050 Trees it for-brac, and gres, and corn, ðat was up-sprungen ðor bi-foren. 1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 99 He hadde no sterre vp⁓sprongyn þat was euyl no contrary. 1563 Winȝet Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 12 Be the negligence..of zour Hienes forebearis..al this perturbatioun, trible, and hie interpryseis..ar wp⁓sproung. 1729 Savage Wanderer ii. 415 Up-sprung, such weed-like Coarseness it [sc. the grain] betrays, Flocks on th' abandon'd Blade permissive graze. 1826 E. Irving Babylon I. ii. 78 We are not to suppose that the ten..were all up⁓sprung before the little horn appeared. 1876 F. K. Robinson Whitby Gloss. 209 Upsprung, adj., sprung up in all senses. |