upcaught
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]upcaught (not comparable)
- (archaic) Seized or caught up.
- 1791, Homer, W[illiam] Cowper, transl., “[The Odyssey.] Book XII.”, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 279, lines 117–118:
- In ev'ry mouth / She [Scylla] bears upcaught a mariner away.