(UP- 6, 6 b. Cf. UPSTART v.)
1581. Hanmer, Jesuites Banner, B 2 b. This new found order and vpstarting Jesuites.
1592. Greene, 2nd Pt. Conny Catch., A 2 b. Such vpstarting suckars that consume the sap from the roote of the Tree.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., V. v. 13. By this vpstarting from her swoune, she star’d … about her.
1784. Cowper, Task, III. 521. Then rise the tender germs upstarting quick.
1812. J. Wilson, Isle of Palms, II. 70. As to the touch of fairy-hand Upstarting dim the nameless land Extends its mountain line.
c. 1830. Praed, Poems (1864), II. 303. Lo, they will weep…, Upstarting from their broken prayer.
1893. McCarthy, Dictator, xxvi. She had … slept a little in a fitful, upstarting sort of way.
