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# {{lb|en|transitive|obsolete|poetic|Scottish law}} To [[give up]] or [[yield up]]. |
# {{lb|en|transitive|obsolete|poetic|Scottish 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 {{...}}}} |
|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=[[w:Robert Wharton Landis|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'''.}} |
|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|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.}} |
|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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Revision as of 11:58, 28 September 2019
English
Etymology
up- + give. Cognate with German aufgeben (“to abandon, give up, quit”).
Verb
upgive (third-person singular simple present upgives, present participle upgiving, simple past upgave, past participle upgiven)
- (transitive, obsolete, poetic, 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.