[UP- 7.] The action of stirring up or arousing; stimulation; incitement, encouragement.
1613. P. Forbes, Comm. Rev., v. (1614), 30. The singing of the rest should serue the Church for a new vpstirring to insist in his praise.
a. 1653. Binning, Serm. (1735), 634/1. There is no up-stirring to Faith among us.
1671. [R. MacWard], True Nonconf., 393. We are to emulat the grace and principle of zeal … for our upstirring to acts in like manner.
1730. T. Boston, Mem., xi. (1899), 353. The which practice I found useful to my upstirring.
1826. E. Irving, Babylon, II. 414. The upstirring or infidel principles.
a. 1861. Sir G. Scott, Lect. Archit. (1878), I. 142. It was a period of deep-seated mental excitement, of a prodigious upstirring of the human intellect.
