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▪ I. † ˈunderput, n. Obs.—1 [under-1 4 d.] A mistress.
1607Middleton Michaelmas Term iii. i, Is she but your underput, master Lethe? Let. No more, of my credit;..when all comes to all, 'tis but a plain pung. ▪ II. † underˈput, v. Obs. [under-1 4 b, 7.] 1. trans. To put (one thing) under (another); to place or set beneath.
c1220Bestiary 669 Rennande cumeð a ȝungling, raðe to him luteð, his snute him under puteð. 1382Wyclif Gen. xxviii. 18 [Jacob] took the stoon, the which he hadde vnder⁓put to his heed. ― Exod. xxvi. 21 Two stakis to eche table shulen be vnderput. c1480Henryson Orpheus & Eurydice 630 (Bann. MS.), Now pray we god..That he wald vndirput his haly hand Of mantenans, and gife ws forss to stand. b. To furnish with something placed under, esp. as a support.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. vii. (Skeat) I. 72 Hadden they ben underput with any helpes, they had not so lightly falle. c1475Promp. Parv. (K.) 511/2 Vnder puttyn, or beryn up,..suffulcio. c1611Chapman Iliad xxi. 342 As a caldron, underput with store of fire,..up leapes his wave aloft. 2. To put under the power or control of; to place in subjection; to subject. Const. to.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. pr. vi. (1868) 28 Þat þou byleuest þat þe gouernynge of it nis nat subgit ne vnderput to þe folie of þise happes auenterouses. a1400–50Alexander 5402 Synches I hiȝt; And to my powere vndire-putt is all þe playn werd. c1456Pecock Bk. of Faith (1909) 217 If it like to oure Lord God that he submitte and undirputte alle Cristen personys to resoun and fre wil. 1559Mirr. Mag., Hen. VI, xiv, Wheron the rest depende and vnderput remayne. b. To lower (the voice).
1382Wyclif Prov. xxvi. 25 Whan he shal vndirputte [L. submiserit] his vois, ne ȝiue thou credence to hym. 3. a. To put or take fraudulently. b. To substitute.
c1400in Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 133 Som men seiþ..þat sche underput [L. supposuisse] to hir self lyenge in childebedde þe forseide Swane. Ibid. 137. Ibid. 149 He was..deposed, and anoþer i-ordeyned and underput [L. subrogatus]. Hence † underˈputting vbl. n. Obs.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. ix. (Skeat) l. 62 Though thou be put to serve the ilke jewel duringe thy lyfe, yet is that no servage of underputtinge, but a maner of travayling plesaunce. c1440Promp. Parv. 511/2 Vnder puttynge,..subposicio. 1611Florio, Supposta, an vnderputting or setting. |