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upˈstay, v.
[up- 4.]
1. trans. To sustain by material support; to prop up.
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. xii. 21 Those two villeins, which her steps vpstayd. 1596Ibid. iv. i. 37 They reared him on horsebacke, and vpstayd. 1642H. More Song of Soul i. ii. xxvii, An uggly cloven foot this monster doth upstay. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 195 The tenth on bended knee His massie Spear upstaid. 1793Wordsw. Descriptive Sk. 252 Bare steeps, where Desolation stalks,..by a blasted yew upstay'd. 1814― Excurs. vii. 678 The Child..by some friendly finger's help upstayed. 1873R. Bridges Elegy on Lady Poems (1912) 239 Each on high a torch upstaying.
2. fig. To sustain, support.
1600Fairfax Tasso xvii. xliii, For by the sword, the scepter is vpstaid. 1619Drayton Legends iv. 338 That Atlas, which the gouernement vpstay'd. 1820Wordsw. River Duddon xxviii. 11 Glad meetings, tender partings, that upstay The drooping mind of absence. 1851Clough Relig. Poems vii. 10 A hand that is not ours upstays our steps. 1883R. W. Dixon Mano i. i. 2 If God..still with life upstay The hand that writes. |