uprise

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English uprisen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English *ūprīsan (“to rise up”), equivalent to up- +‎ rise. Cognate with Icelandic upprisa (“resurrection”), Middle Low German oprīsinge (“uprising”). Compare also Icelandic uppreisn (“an uprising, revolt”).

Verb

uprise (third-person singular simple present uprises, present participle uprising, simple past uprose, past participle uprisen)

1. (archaic) To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI

     The great sky uprose from this silent sea without a cloud. The stars hung low in its expanse, burning in a violent mist of lower ether.

2. (archaic) To have an upward direction or inclination
   • Tennyson

     Uprose the mystic mountain range.

3. To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.
   • 1998, William B. Griffen, Apaches at War and Peace (page 92)

     They had decided to uprise rather than face punishment, and they wanted all the help they could get.

Noun

uprise (plural uprises)

1. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.

Related terms

• uprist

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “uprise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Epirus, rise up