uprise

English

Etymology

From Middle English uprisen, from 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.
   • 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.

   • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     With the day, though not so early as the sun, uprose Miss Susan Nipper.

2. (archaic) To have an upward direction or inclination.
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Vision of Sin”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Chicago, Ill.: The Dominion Company, published 1897, →OCLC, stanza V, page 317:

     The voice grew faint: there came a further change; / Once more uprose the mystic mountain range: / Below were men and horses pierc'd with worms, / And slowly quickening into lower forms; […]

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.

Translations

to rebel or revolt

• French: se rebeller (fr), se révolter (fr)

Noun

uprise (plural uprises)

1. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.
   • 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 283:

     I told her of my sufferings and my madness,
     And how, awakened from that dreamy mood
     By Liberty’s uprise, the strength of gladness
     Came to my spirit in my solitude; […]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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