Middle English Dictionary Entry
uptāking(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | uptāking(e ger. Also (early) huptaking. |
| Etymology | From uptāken v.; for sense (d) also cp. ON: cp. OI upptaka source. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Elevation to heaven, being raised;
(b) exaltation, uplifting;
(c) protection, support; also, acceptance into protection;—with allusion to (a) [2nd quot.];
(d) the source of a stream.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1450 NHom.in NM 73 (Hnt HM 129)p.208 : Uptakyng.
- a1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)9433 : For alle þe daies to hem stonde shal Þat þei had ben worþi to take In purgatorie hem clene to make And also in her vp taking, To hem shal come a sharpe clensyng.
b
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)1582 : Yet had it not ben sufficyent, The vptakyng of oure frele nature, Whiche wyth synne was almost schent, But recuryd had ben oure brosure.
c
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ps.107.9 : Galaad is myn, and Manasses is myn; and Effraym is the vptaking [WB(1): vndertaking; L susceptio] of myn heed.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)88.18 : Of lord is oure vptakynge [L assumpcio]…oure lord…halighis cristen men, takis vs fra lust and couaitys of [read: til] contemplacioun of heuen.
d
- c1250 Cart.Cock.in Chet.n.s.56854 : Terram quae jacet inter Arkelbec et stagnum molendini ad huptaking et est longitudo a le huptaking usque ad terram Margeriae.