upˈbrought, pa. pple.
(up- 5. Cf. upbring v. 2.)
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxxiv. (Pelagia) 291 A dekine, þat wes vpe-brocht with bischope veron. ? c 1470 G. Ashby Active Policy 473 Also chese your servantes.., Remembryng with whom thei haue be vpbraught. 1520 Calisto & Melib. C iv b, As long as yong pepyll be euell vpbrought. 1596 Spenser F.Q. vi. vi. 9 That same beast was bred of hellish strene, And long in darksome Stygian den vpbrought. Ibid. i. ix. 3, etc. 1899 in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. up adv. 1. |