upbear
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Etymology
From Middle English upberen, equivalent to up- + bear.
Verb
upbear (third-person singular simple present upbears, present participle upbearing, simple past upbore, past participle upborne or (archaic, poetic) upbore)
- (dated, transitive) To hold up; raise aloft; hold or sustain high
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- One short sigh of breath, upborne
Even to the seat of God.
- 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 5”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
- A monstrous wave up-bore the chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore.
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