Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Uprising.
- noun The resurrection.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Uprising.
- imp. of
uprise . Uprose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
Uprising . - noun obsolete, religious The
resurrection .
Etymologies
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Examples
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'uprest' is simply an overlooked misprint for 'uprist' -- not by any means a nonce-word, but a genuine English verbal substantive of regular formation, familiar to many from its employment by Chaucer.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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'uprest' is simply an overlooked misprint for 'uprist' -- not by any means a nonce-word, but a genuine English verbal substantive of regular formation, familiar to many from its employment by Chaucer.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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Nor dim nor red, like Gods own head, The glorious Sun uprist: Then all averrd, I had killd the birdThat brought the fog and mist.
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‘uprist’ — not by any means a nonce-word, but a genuine
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By God’s death and his uprist, Shall we never die for default,
The Talisman 2008
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_Raise up_, from B. 's uprist, _uprisen, risen up_.]
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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The glorious sun uprist; "and each dawn saw us up and out to watch these sunrises, whose splendour cannot be expressed on paper.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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My light's uprist (and what light it shows!) * Is a silvern zone on the waist of Night. "
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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