pa. pple. (UP- 5. Cf. UPSPRING v.)
1000. Ags. Gosp., Matt. xiii. 6. Soþlice upsprungenre sunnan hiʓ adruwudon.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 3050. Trees it for-brac, and gres, and corn, ðat was up-sprungen ðor bi-foren.
c. 1400. trans. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh., 99. He hadde no sterre vpsprongyn þat was euyl no contrary.
1563. Winȝet, Wks. (S.T.S.), II. 12. Be the negligence … of zour Hienes forebearis … al this perturbatioun, trible, and hie interpryseis … ar wpsproung.
1729. Savage, Wanderer, II. 415. Up-sprung, such weed-like coarseness it [sc. the grain] betrays Flocks on th’ abandon’d Blade permissive graze.
1826. E. Irving, Babylon, I. II. 78. We are not to suppose that the ten … were all upsprung before the little horn appeared.
1876. F. K. Robinson, Whitby Gloss, 209. Upsprung, adj., sprung up in all senses.
