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==English== |
==English== |
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===Etymology=== |
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{{root|en|ine-pro|*gʰebʰ-}} |
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{{rfc-trverb|Transitive verb}} |
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From {{prefix|en|up|give}}. Cognate with {{cog|de|aufgeben||to abandon, give up, quit}}.<!-- from {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*uppgeban}}? Or independently created? --> |
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'''upgive''' |
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===Verb=== |
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# {{obsolete}}: To give up or out |
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{{en-verb|upgives|upgiving|upgave|upgiven}} |
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# {{lb|en|transitive|poetic|obsolete|except|in|Scots law}} To [[give up]] or [[yield up]]. |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=1811|author=Robert Bell|title=A System of the Forms of Deeds Used in Scotland|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=KrA2AAAAIAAJ|page=116 |
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|passage={{...}} we hereby resign, surrender, '''upgive''', overgive and deliver, ALL and WHOLE — (here the lands were described) — together with all right, title and interest whatever {{...}}}} |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=1849|author=Robert Wharton Landis|title=Liberty's Triumph: A Poem|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ai81AAAAMAAJ|page=255 |
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|passage=Then, too, are Jersey's sons all resolute, / Repairing to the camp in numbers great, / Their sufferings to avenge upon the foe, / Which all must cease should Jersey be '''upgiven'''.}} |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=1906|author=w:Charles Montagu Doughty|title=The Dawn in Britain|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=RPPoer0jfqwC|page=4 |
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|passage=There fell a sudden rain then, from the gods: / Which glisters, in the sun, like golden hairs; / And earth '''upgave''' sweet savour of her sod, / Mingled with iron stink of sweat and blood.}} |
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===Anagrams=== |
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* {{anagrams|en|a=egipuv|give up}} |
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Latest revision as of 03:06, 19 August 2024
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From up- + give. Cognate with German aufgeben (“to abandon, give up, quit”).
Verb
[edit]upgive (third-person singular simple present upgives, present participle upgiving, simple past upgave, past participle upgiven)
- (transitive, poetic, obsolete except in Scots law) To give up or yield up.
- 1811, Robert Bell, A System of the Forms of Deeds Used in Scotland[1], page 116:
- […] we hereby resign, surrender, upgive, overgive and deliver, ALL and WHOLE — (here the lands were described) — together with all right, title and interest whatever […]
- 1849, Robert Wharton Landis, Liberty's Triumph: A Poem[2], page 255:
- Then, too, are Jersey's sons all resolute, / Repairing to the camp in numbers great, / Their sufferings to avenge upon the foe, / Which all must cease should Jersey be upgiven.
- 1906, Charles Montagu Doughty, The Dawn in Britain[3], page 4:
- There fell a sudden rain then, from the gods: / Which glisters, in the sun, like golden hairs; / And earth upgave sweet savour of her sod, / Mingled with iron stink of sweat and blood.