A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1399-1436, 1500-1552
[0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
Upstand, v. Also: wpstand, upstend. Pres. p. also upstannand. P.p. upstud(e, -stendit. [ME and e.m.E. vp-stod (Layamon), vpstode (a1300), both p.t., upstande (Rolle); Stand v.] intr.
1. To stand erect or upright. a. Of persons or animals. (Stand v. 1.) b. Of things. (Stand v. 10, 11.)a. a1400 Legends of the Saints vii 759.
A man in-to the wal thai fand, that one his fete vpstannand wes c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 141/15.
Me thocht fresche May befoir my bed upstude 1513 Doug. x xiii 38.
The tother … massely vpstude with bustuus cors 1513 Doug. x xiv 154.
Vpstendis [Ruddim. Upstendit] than the stalwart steid on hychtb. a1400 Legends of the Saints iii 648.
Egeas … bad his tormentoris … [that] one the croice thai suld hym stracht … And syne ger the croice ewyn vpstand c1420 Wynt. iv 742.
Off slayne bodyis fundyn thare Hepys hey wpstandand [W. vpstandand] ware 1513 Doug. iii iv 88.
To Itale sal ȝe wend … Bot first, or wallis of the cite vpstand [Sm. wpstand] c1552 Lynd. Mon. 5465.
The sey … Jerome sayis … sall ryse on heycht Abone montanis … Bot it sall nocht spred ouir the land, Bot, lyke ane wall, ewin straycht vpstand
2. a. To rise to one's feet. (Stand v. 40 a.) b. To rise from the dead. (Stand v. 40 c.)a. 1436 Coll. Aberd. & B. 394.
The … Lorde Constabil vp stude in the courte and saide [etc.] 1513 Doug. xi vii 93.
Ane Drances tho vpstud [Ruddim. vpstude] and speke beganb. 1533 Gau 67/25.
Apone dwmis day … my same body and noth ane oder siclik sal thane vpstand
