upsteal
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]upsteal (third-person singular simple present upsteals, present participle upstealing, simple past upstole, past participle upstolen)
- (poetic, intransitive) To steal or creep upward.
- 1905, Bliss Carman, Poems, volume 2, page 212:
- […] Or the potter, from whose wheel / Fair and finished shapes upsteal, / As by magic of command, / Guided by the loving hand.
- 1901, Thomas Hardy, A Commonplace Day:
- Yet, maybe, in some soul, / In some spot undiscerned on sea or land, some impulse rose, / Or some intent upstole / Of that enkindling ardency from whose maturer glows / The world's amendment flows.