upheapedadj.
I. As past participle.figurative.1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 4 Shoo said he wur a rascal upheaped and downthrussen. [Cf. quot. a1642 at upheap v.]
1. (up- prefix 3b. Cf. upheap v.)
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > more than full or heaped
upheapedc1380
heaped1530
heap-full1530
full (also to fill) to overflowing1797
stacked1908
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > collecting into one mass or body > accumulated > heaping > heaped or piled
upheapedc1380
heapedc1440
coppeda1552
piled1595
balked1598
up-piled1600
coacervate1626
castellated1780
piled-up1791
castellate1830
banked1838
coacervated1841
pyramided1866
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 370 Þe same malyce in kynde he schal fynde, ȝhe uphepid, in our byschopis.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 819 Of peres sowre..yf that they be Ytake & kepte vphepid daies thre.
14.. W. of Henley's Husb. (1890) 50 Be wele ware off mesurynge off your bushell þat is vphepide.
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 2 Pet. i. f. xvi Let brotherly charitie be augmented and vpheaped with loue.
1560 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodyake of Lyfe ii. sig. Dvv Thy barnes vpheaped & hugy mowes, of corne.
1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible i. 95 Their Sinne vpheapt, God sendeth them away, To Babylon.
1777 A. Hunter et al. Georgical Ess. (new ed.) i. 416 I..laid on 167 chaldrons of lime, 32 bushels, upheaped, to the chaldron.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 53 Whose board is high up-heap'd with generous fare.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) Excellent measure, not only up-heaped, but pressed down.
II. attributive.
2. (up- prefix 3b.)
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [adjective] > heaped
heaped1530
upheaped1549
heaping1868
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Pet. iv. f. xii God..shal repaye al with vpheaped mesure.
1565 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 86 That the old upheaped mete be..allowed and none other.
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. xi. §4. 116 He maketh such vpheaped piles of dishes.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 108 Wee have allwayes of a stricken bushell of corne an upheaped bushell of meale.
1821 S. T. Coleridge Lett., Conversat., & Recoll. I. 183 An upheaped love and devotion to her admirable husband.
1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas II. 159 I alone Must bear the up-heaped murmurings of the whole.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lxvi. 340 Amid the upheaped corpses the blood..hissed and bubbled.
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