▪ I. uprise, n.
(ʌpˈraɪz, ˈʌpraɪz)
[up- 2. Cf. ON. upprisa (MSw. uprisa, Sw. uppresa), rising up, resurrection.]
† 1. Resurrection. Obs.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 1479 Wit þair vpris fra ded to lijf. Ibid. 18571 Þan bigan þai to bede þam hightes For to lei of his vp-rise. |
2. a. Rising (of the sun, etc.); dawn (of day).
| 1588 Shakes. Tit. A. iii. i. 159 A Larke, That giues sweet tydings of the Sunnes vprise. 1600 S. Nicholson Acolastus' After-witte A 4, Faire Queene Aurora,..Whose blithsome vp-rise makes Nights prisoners blest. 1635 Heywood Hierarchy iii. Comm. 183 Because the Sunne in his mornings vprise looketh red and blushing. 1674 J. W[right] Seneca's Thyestes 71 Father of gods and men, at whose Uprise Night doth her beauty loose. 1794 Southey Elinor 11 When in better years poor Elinor Gazed on thy glad uprise with eye undimm'd By guilt. 1818 Shelley Eugan. Hills 73 The pæan With which the legioned rooks did hail The sun's uprise majestical. a 1851 Moir Poems, Mine Own i, Alike at orient day's uprise, And pensive shut of night. |
† b. The act of rising from bed. Obs.
| 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Isl. xii. iv, Musick and base flattering tongues, Which wait to first-salute my Lords uprise. |
c. The act of rising to a higher level; ascent.
| 1690 C. Nesse O. & N. Test. I. 126 The dreadful downfal, as well as up-rise, of the waters. 1817 Shelley Rev. Islam xii. xvi, A blood-red gleam Burst upwards... I heard the mighty sound Of its uprise. 1882 Geikie Text-bk. Geol. vi. v. 900 An intermittent uprise of the land. |
d. The beginning of an ascent; an ascending shaft in a mine.
| 1875 Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 334 Now bound For Dorion, at the uprise..Of Mount Pangaios. 1877 Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 174 Fifty feet in from the mouth of the tunnel an uprise was made. |
3. a. Ascent to power or dignity; rise to wealth or importance.
| 1810 J. Porter Scot. Chiefs x, At the fall of Dunbar..he again founded his uprise on the ruins of this country. 1877 N.W. Linc. Gloss. 265 The uprise o' that family was th' inclosures. |
b. The act of coming into existence or notice; origination.
| 1817 Shelley Rev. Islam vii. ii, Awakened from that dreamy mood By Liberty's uprise. 1844 Thackeray Wks. (1886) XXIII. 205 The young painters..whose uprise this Magazine and this critic were the first to hail. 1862 F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 241 The uprise of a new..affection of the internal organ. 1875 Whitney Life Lang. vi. 107 The uprise of the class of prepositions. |
▪ II. uprise, v.
(ʌpˈraɪz)
[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 J. 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 and 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 up⁓rose 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. 134 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 1386 Chaucer Reeve's T. 329 Aleyn vprist and thoughte, er þat it dawe I wol go crepen In by my felawe. 1503 Dunbar Thistle & Rose 29 Quhairto..sall I vprys at morrow? 1513 Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 2544 She wolde vp⁓ryse 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 uprose in the night. |
2. Of the sun: 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, home⁓ward, 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 up⁓ryse. 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. a 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 Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 89 For þou seez it [sc. an enchanted stone] vprys vpon waterys whenne þay rynne with þe wyndes. 1842 Tennyson Vision of Sin 208 Once more Uprose the mystic mountain range. 1858 Longfellow 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 n.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 up⁓rise some marvelous phenomena. |