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▪ I. upheave, n.
see up- 2.
▪ II. upˈheave, v.
[up- 4. Cf. OE. uphebban, ME. uphebbe, = OFris. op-, upheva (WFris. opheevje), (M)Du. opheffen, MLG. upheven, LG. upheffen, OHG. ûfhevan (MHG. ûfheben, G. aufheben), MSw. uphäfia, ophävia, etc. (Sw. upphäfva, -häva), (M)Da. ophæve.]
1. trans. To heave or lift up; to raise; † to exalt.
a1300E.E. Psalter iii. 3 Lauerd, mi fanger art þou in lande, Mi blisse, and mi heued vpheueande [L. exaltans]. Ibid. cxliv. 1, I sal vpheue þe, god. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xliii. (Cecilia) 94 Þe ald his handis..Vphewit to þe hewine rycht þare. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1570 Arcita anon his hand vp haf. 1513Douglas æneid xiii. x. 21 The fader Eneas..His handis bayth vphevis towartis hevin. 1563Mirr. Mag. R iv, Vp heauing to the skyes Her wretched handes. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 482 Her two blew windowes faintly she vpheaueth. 1620Quarles Feast for Worms §12 No sooner Titan had vp-heau'd his head From off the pillow. 1676Hobbes Iliad i. 429 Chryses pray'd with hands to Heaven upheaved. 1736Gray Statius i. 15 Another orb upheaved his strong right hand. 1791Cowper Iliad iv. 504 The waves by Zephyrus up-heaved. 1817Monthly Mag. XLIII. 237 Couch'd on the shore his head and shoulders twain, Upheaves a giant shape. 1850Blackie æschylus II. 69 Let the sea upheave her billows! 1855Browning Saul xiv, While Hebron upheaves The dawn..on his shoulder.
b. esp. To toss or throw up with violence; spec. in Geol.
1708J. Philips Cyder i. 202 Th' infernal winds..from beneath the solid mass Upheav'd. 1809Wordsw. Poems Nat. Indep. ii. xvi, War upheaved The ground beneath thee with volcanic force. 1813Bakewell Introd. Geol. (1815) 234 Some great convulsion has upheaved from their foundations..the whole mass of the chalk rocks. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. vii. 194 There are masses of stone and brick..lying about as if upheaved and overturned by some tremendous earthquake.
fig.1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. i. 16 Let the infidel and the Dissenter join hands in upheaving the Church. 1854J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. i. 23 The portentous rumblings of that approaching earthquake, which soon uphove both altar and throne.
†2. = uplift v. 4, raise v.1 13. Obs.
a1300E.E. Psalter xcii. 4 Þai vphoue, louerd, stremes euen, Vphoued stremes þair steuen. a1593Marlowe Ovid's Elegies iii. v. 52 The bold floud..his hoarse voice vpheau'd Saying, [etc.].
3. intr. To rise up.
1649Lovelace Lucasta (1904) 99 The July-flow'r.., But for one look of her, upheaves. a1826J. Hyatt in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. IV. 108 To represent human nature as upheaving under its load. 1850B. Taylor Eldorado I. 170 The surface of the bay..upheaved with a slow, majestic movement. 1893Scribner's Mag. XIII. 92/1 Along the west it upheaves into the fine Valles range.
4. trans. To support, sustain. rare—1.
1729Savage Wanderer iv. 170 Pillars..Which, nodding, just up-heave their crumbling load.
Hence upˈheaved ppl. a., upˈheavement, upˈheaver, upˈheaving vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1847Emerson Ode to Channing 30 If earth fire cleave The *upheaved land, and bury the folk. 1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 10 The upheaved sea beach..which forms the esplanade. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xiii, Each like one million-petalled flower of upheaved whiteness.
1841J. Trimmer Pract. Geol. 56 It was the agent employed in the *upheavement of chains of mountains. 1864Reader 5 March 301/3 After the last upheavement of the Alps, great fissures or basins of lakes were left there.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 7 b/1 An Elevatorium [marg. or *vpheaver], to lift vp the bullet and drawe him therout. 1872Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxv. 6 Philosphers..too much engrossed with their laws of upheaval to think of the Upheaver. 1892Graphic 18 June 731/3 The pullers up of streets and the upheavers of footways.
1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 231 Great *upheavings of the coast. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. i. 23 The traces of igneous action on the granite rocks belong to their first upheaving. 1863― Jew. Ch. xiii. 285 The Conquest was over, but the upheavings of the conquered population still continued. 1880McCarthy Own Times xli. III. 226 All over the world there seemed to be an unheaving of old systems.
1821Atherstone Poems 72 Ocean monsters, from their beds..Torn by th' *upheaving billows to the day. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxii. (1856) 282, I mounted the upheaving ice, and rode upon the fragments. 1881W. Stephens Chichester 158 [They] could not foresee what mighty and upheaving changes were at hand. |