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▪ I. ˈupcome, n. Chiefly Sc.
[up- 2.]
1. Sc. Way up, ascent. rare.
1375Barbour Bruce vi. 167 The vpcom wes then Dittit with slayn hors and men. 1866Gregor Banffshire Gloss. 204.
2. Sc. Outward appearance (of a person). ? Obs.
Jamieson (1808) suggests that the idea is ‘probably borrowed from the first appearance of the..blade after sowing’.
a1630D. Hume Hist. Ho. Douglas (1644) 235 A Courtier..cast in a word of doubting and disparaging: It is true, said he, if all be good that is up-come; meaning if his action and valour were answerable to his personage and body. 1819[A. Balfour] Campbell I. 27, I hae nae doubt o' his abilities, for he promises fair according to his upcome. [1819Scott Leg. Montrose iv, ‘A stout fellow,’ replied Anderson, ‘if all be good that is upcome’. 1823― Quentin D. vii, You should be a right man-at-arms, if all be good that is upcome.]
3. Sc. The final or decisive point.
1824Scott Redgauntlet let. iii, My portrait is..scandalously caricatured. I fail or quail in spirit at the upcome!
4. The result, yield, or produce.
c1874C. Patmore in Champneys Mem. (1900) I. 250 The upcome of a year can be reaped in one fine day. 1887Sat. Rev. 11 June 821/1 The positive..upcome of this last of Mr. Gladstone's perambulations.
▪ II. upˈcome, v. rare.
[up- 4. Cf. WFris. opkomme, MDu. opcomen (Du. opkomen), MLG. upkomen, MHG. ûfkomen (G. aufkommen), MSw. up-, opkoma, -komme (Sw. uppkomma), (M)Da. opkomme.]
intr. To come, spring, or rise up.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Mark iv. 17 Syþþan upcymð deofles costnung. c1200Ormin 1267 Ȝiff þu..ȝeornesst tatt tu mote sket Uppcumenn inntill heoffne. c1400Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xxiv, Of corne and of oþer thynges that vppe commeth of þe londe. 1828Atherstone Fall of Nineveh I. 48 In a moment more, Upcame the monstrous universal shout. |