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Uprising, -rysing, vbl. n. Also: uprisyng, -rysinge, -rysyng, -eng, upryissing, up-rissing, uperysing, wprysing. [ME and e.m.E. uprisinge (c1250), vprysyng (c1440).]

1. The action of getting up, as from bed, rest or repose. = Risin(g vbl. n. 1. 1582 Treas. Acc. MS (1581-3) 89.
Violat taffatie of the cord tobe bandis to his hienes kne eftir his vpryissing

b. specif. An instance of a woman's getting up after confinement; rising from childbed. Urquhart Rabelais iii xli 336.
An uprising or women churching treatment

c. Resurrection. = Risin(g vbl. n. 1 b. a1400 Leg. S. xii 321.
Of Cristis … vprysinge that may Be wytnes

2. The breaking up or adjournment of an assembly. = Risin(g vbl. n. 3. 1648 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 88.
If it wald please thair honors, efter thair vprysing, to repair to Sanct Catherins Hill

3. The rising of the sun; sunrise, daybreak. c1400 Troy-bk. ii 1364 (C).
And of the day next the dawynge, Wprysing makyng the morowyng 1492 Highland P. II 192.
Apone a day betuix the uprising of the sone ande the doune passing of the samyn 1513 Doug. xii iv 32.
The princis … Turnys towartis the brycht sonnys vprysyng [Ruddim. vprisyng] c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 932.
Airlie into ane cleir morning, Befoir fair Phœbus vprysing c1552 Lynd. Mon. 128.
Vperysing Arundel MS 274/8.
The blisfull orient sone … Quhois blyssit vp-rissing glades euery wycht 1575 Reg. Privy S. VII 22/1.
Fra the toganging of the sone to the uprysing of the samin

4. Beginning, (initial) growth. = Risin(g vbl. n. 7. 1596 Dalr. I 69/16.
In the descriptione of the first vpryseng of thair republik and commoune welth