Definition of "uprist" [up•rist]

• Uprising. (noun)
• The resurrection. (noun)

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• "'uprest' is simply an overlooked misprint for 'uprist' -- not by any means a nonce-word, but a genuine English verbal substantive of regular formation, familiar to many from its employment by Chaucer."
• "Nor dim nor red, like God’s own head, The glorious Sun uprist: Then all averr’d, I had kill’d the birdThat brought the fog and mist."
• "‘uprist’ — not by any means a nonce-word, but a genuine"