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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1478-1513, 1645-1699

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Upmaking, vbl. n. Also: upemaking, upmakin, -mackinge. [19th c. Eng. upmaking (1846); Upmak v. Also in the later dial.]

1. (Re)building, (re)construction. b. Of a clock: ? Erection, setting up.1478 Binns P. (SRS) 7.
[To] refound … to the said John als mekle proffit … as … John gat of beforetyme within sa lang space as fra the breking of the said myln to the biggin and upemaking of hir again
1513 Aberd. B. Rec. I 84.
For the biggin and vpmakin of thar blokhouse for thair artailȝerie
1657 Dumfries Council Min. MS 18 Aug.
To cause make vp a new sufficient chayre … And sufficient cawtione be fund for vpmaking of the chayre
1661–2 Aberd. Shore Wk. Acc. 479.
For 3 dayes worke at the fort … laid downe ane boll lyme att the schore, cost, with vpmackinge … 18 s.
b. 1673 Rothesay B. Rec. 252.
For the supplie to the towne towards the bying and upmaking of ane knock

2. Reimbursement (of money). b. fig. Making good, compensating for (a loss.) c. Making up, reconciling (a quarrel). d. Increasing, adding to (a number).1645 Army of the Covenant I 204.
Payed to James Cockburne quartermaster for the use of the chirurgeon Alexander Penecook for upmaking of his half moneths pay
1688 Galloway P. 22 Feb.
What the housses ar defective by the present tenents … my lord is to cause apretiat them & alow Andrew Hannay the upmaking in quhat he is restand of rent for Porterock
b. a1658 Durham Blessedness Death (1713) Sig. A 12b.
We would … take Christ's bond … for His … free compensing of all losses … this bond for His upmaking of their losses
c. a1658 Durham Comm. Rev. 591.
Things so essentiall unto the up-making of a sinners breach with God
d. 1679 Dunferm. Hammermen MS.
For saying that the loremurs [etc.] … uer bot for upmaking the blak smiths number

3. The action of making up, supplying or satisfying a need or want; the satisfaction itself. Cf. Upmaking ppl. adj.1650 Carstairs Lett. 59.
Learning the excellent airt of upmaking in God all wishes and wants in the creature
1664 Pitcairn Spiritual Sacrifice 735.
The Lord … will cut off the streams that we may run to the fountain it self, to have a supply and an up-making there
1669 Fleming Fulfilling Scripture (1681) 64.
When they … compared their gain with their losse, their upmaking with these dayes of trial
a1699 Fraser in Select Biographies II 162.
Christ … of whom, though I had some knowledge as of one able to save me and who only was my upmaking, yet at this time I knew Him not so distinctly
a1699 Fraser in Select Biographies II 261.
To believe on Him for upmaking all my wants, especially the want of Himself

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