v. Obs. Forms: 1 yppan, 2 ippen, 3 uppen. [OE. yppan (also ʓeyppan), f. upp UP adv.,1 giving southern ME. üppen, midland ippen. Cf. ON. yppa (MDa. yppe), and OHG. ûffan (MHG. ûffen, ûfen, obs. G. aufen).] trans. To display or make manifest; to bring to notice; to make known.
c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., lix. 451. Ðæt we hit … forðy yppen ðæt mon God heriʓe.
c. 900. trans. Baeda’s Hist., IV. xxv. (1890), 352. Se Godes mon … þa unrotnesse his heortan … ypte & cyðde.
a. 1000. Colloq. Ælfric, in Wr.-Wülcker, 102. Ic ne deor yppan þe diʓla ure.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 165. Here wombe is here crist, and all iuele forbisne hie ippen of hem seluen.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 146. Hercneð nu … hu hit is to uppen & ȝelpen of god dede. Ibid. Ancre þet was iwuned … wel uorte wurchen, & seoððen … uppede hit & scheawede.
