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† 1. Sustenance; support in necessaries. Obs.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, iii. (Andrew), 965. Þu sal hafe þi vphalding with honeste in al thinge in myn dioce.
1535. Coverdale, 2 Macc. iii. 10. Money layed vp for the vpholdinge of weddowes and fatherlesse children.
1667. D. Fergusson’s Coll. Sc. Prov., No. 707. Pride and sweerness would have meikle upholding.
2. Maintenance in regular use or in proper condition.
a. 1350. in Facsimiles Nat. MSS. Scotland, II. (1870), 14. Ad … sustentacionem [glossed vphalding] dicti molendini.
1453. Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 20. For the vphaldyng and eikyng of Godis seruice to be done in the paroche kirk.
1486. in Exchequer Rolls Scotl., X. 100. For the uphalding and bering of the … chargis of the said office.
1521. Lincoln Wills (1914), 104. To the upholdyng of Notyngham briges. Ibid. (1522), 106. To the upholdyng of the forsaid churche.
1543. Richmond. Wills (Surtees), 47. I bewhethe other twenty shelyngs … for the upholdyng of one seirge of waxe yerly.
1613. in Essex Rev., XVII. 105. The upholdinge and perfectinge of the companies in good strengh and number.
1631. Weever, Anc. Funeral Mon., To Rdr. 6. For the repairing and vpholding … of that … building.
1842. J. Aiton, Clerical Econ., 112. It must have separate houses, which,… in upholding, must cost disproportionally dear.
1894. C. N. Robinson, Brit. Fleet, 62. No sacrifice can therefore be too great for the upholding of our fleet.
3. The action of sustaining or supporting by aid or influence.
1599. Sandys, Europæ Spec. (1605), 8. The vpholding of their worldly power and glorie of their Order.
1607. Hieron, Wks., I. 226. The inquirie … how we haue striuen and fought for the vpholding and maintenance of Gods truth.
1637. Documents agst. Prynne (Camden), 95. This was my Lord of Lincolne’s case in his upholding the creditt of Prydean.
1691. Blount, Law Dict. (ed. 2), Maintenance, signifies the upholding or maintaining of a Cause or Person.
1818. Milman, Samor, V. 209. If this life Be worthy thy upholding.
1863. J. Coldstream, in Balfour, Biog. (1865), v. 195. We sensibly felt the ‘upholding’ graciously vouchsafed.
1872. Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., III. 10. He asked … for deliverance, and here he returns thanks for upholding.
4. The action of maintaining in argument.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, ix. 144. What els then is his vpholding of the world to be eternal, than a turning of ye whole world vpside downe?
5. The action of raising or holding up.
1574. in Maitl. Cl. Misc. (1840), I. 111. He … forder obleist him with uphalding of his hand, that he suld be ane trew sugget.
1598. in J. Ronald, Landmarks Old Stirling (1899), 338. They promised solemnlie be uphaulding of their hands.
1866. J. G. Murphy, Comm., Exod. xvii. 12. Aaron and Hur joining in the upholding of Moses’s hands.
