ppl. a. Sc. Obs. [UP- 5.] Inactive, indifferent, callous.
1682. Peden, Lord’s Trumpet (1739), 16. The Lord … hath been crying to You in these Lands (and namelie to thee upsitten Scotland) to watch with him.
1728. P. Walker, Life Peden (1827), Pref. 27. These backslidden, upsitten, lukewarm Ministers, Elders and Professors. Ibid., 61. The Indulged, Backslidden and Upsitten Ministers of Scotland.
[1896. Stevenson, Weir of Hermiston, v. The sister of the gardener … had shown herself ‘upsitten.’]
