pa. pple. and ppl. a. (UP- 6, 6 b.)
1563. C’tess Hertford, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. II. 278. The Queens … graceous pardon…, wych wyth upstretched hands … most humbly I crave.
1642. H. More, Song of Soul, II. ii. III. xxii. So must it be upstretch’d unto the skie.
1860. O. W. Holmes, Elsie V., v. Two meeting-houses stood on two eminences,… looking … as if they would … crow out of their upstretched steeples.
