underprop
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[edit]underprop (third-person singular simple present underprops, present participle underpropping, simple past and past participle underpropped)
- (transitive) To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold, prop up.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- He hath employed all his wit to frame him selfe anew (as impatient of his fortune) and to underprop or uphold himselfe by his inventions.
- 1614, Lucius Annaeus Seneca [i.e., Seneca the Younger], “Of Benefits. Chapter XV.”, in Thomas Lodge, transl., The Workes of Lucius Annæus Seneca, both Morrall and Naturall. […], London: […] William Stansby, →OCLC, 6th booke, page 122:
- Hovv greatly befriendeth he vs, that keepeth our houſe from falling, that vnderproppeth it vvith great cunning, and vpholdeth it in the aire, being cleft and vvinde-ſhaken from the very foundation: […]