† 1. trans. To perform or pursue (a flight) upwards. Obs.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 277. Min fliȝt … ic wile up-taken, Min sete norð on heuene maken.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymnotheo, Poet. Wks. 1721, III. 226. Saints Self-jealous will their Flights uptake, We’ll follow of the first the radiant Wake.
† 2. To deliver up, to surrender. Obs.–1
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 7949. Þe king him made þuder wende, mid is owe folc, to make þe folc þat þer inne was þen castel him vp take [v.r. optake].
3. To pick or take up; to raise from the ground, etc.; to lift. Obs. or arch.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter xvii. 19. He sent fra hegh, and vptoke me; Fra many watres me nam he.
13[?]. K. Alis., 7579 (Laud MS.). He was vptaken of gentil men And ysette on heiȝe benche.
c. 1340. Hampole, Pr. Consc., 5142. Ihesu Crist þat here es uptane Fra yhow, til heven.
c. 1420. Anturs of Arth., 656 (Douce MS.). Boþe þes trauayled mene þey truly vp take; Vnnethe miȝte þo sturne stonde vp riȝte.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., XI. 291. Of see quyete vptaketh they maryne Water purest.
1587. Turberv., Trag. T., 89 b. Then willd he all the Ladies limmes … To be vptaken, peece by peece.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., IV. ii. 25. It … befell, That Satyran a girdle did vptake, Well knowne to appertaine to Florimell.
fig. 1590. Spenser, F. Q., III. ii. 9. The word gone out, she backe againe would call,… But that he it vp-taking ere the fall, Her shortly answered.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, II. ii. 37. But Sancho (wise) uptakes That matter, and … Desires with bread and cheese to pacifie His great distemper.
† b. fig. To raise from distress or straits; to take into one’s care or protection. Obs.
Only in or after Biblical usage, usually tr. L. suscipere.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter xxvi. 16. Mi fader and mi moder me for-soke þai; Lauerd sothlike vptoke me ai.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter xvii. 38. Þi righthand vptoke me.
1388. Wyclif, Isaiah xli. 10. Y coumfortide thee…; and the riȝthond of my iust man vp took thee.
c. 1400. Prymer (1895), 84. Uptake þou me bi þi word, & y schal lyue.
c. 1450. Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.), 127. Israel for his childe up-toke he to cum.
1551. Sternhold & H., Ps. vi. 4. Lord turne thee to thy wonted grace, my sely soule vp take [1584 vptake].
† c. To raise up, exalt. Also absol. Obs.
c. 1340. Hampole, Pr. Consc., 8247. Þai salle þan se … Whi ane es uptane tylle a kyngdom, And ane other es putted in-tylle thraldom.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., xxiv. 380. As fortune assyse men wyll she make; hir maners ar nyse, she can downe and vptake.
† 4. To take possession of; to occupy: Obs.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., IV. ix. 1173. All þe cete þus fand þai With þare fais neire vptane.
1452. Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 131/2. My gudis … to be frely ressavit, uptakyn, governit and fullely disponit at the will … of the saide Walter.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, III. ii. 108. The lugeingis [were] void and reddy to thair fais, The sete left waist till ony it wptais.
† 5. To reprove, rebuke. Obs.–1
c. 1440. Psalmi Peniten. (1894), 1. Lord, yn thin anger, uptake [L. corripias] me nought.
† 6. To receive hospitably. Obs.–1
a. 1470. Harding, Chron., IX. i. Winde theim droue … Into Affrique, where … Thei welcomed wer and worthely vptake.
† 7. Sc. To obtain, get, or exact by way of tax, contribution, or payment; to levy; = UPLIFT v. 3.
1493. Reg. Cupar Abbey, I. 244. Dewiteis of the samyn [lands] to rais and vptak.
1534. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., VI. 221. To help the said John Perdovin to uptak the said movable gudis.
c. 1560. A. Scott, Poems, i. 133. Teindis ar vptane be testament transgressouris.
1592. Excheq. Rolls Scot., XXII. 236. The maillis of the castellandis … intromettit and uptaikin be Johnne, lord Maxwell.
1640–1. Kirkcudbr, War. Comm. Min. Bk. (1855), 58. The Committie ordaines him to uptak the pryce according to the feirs of the yeir.
8. Sc. (and north. dial.). To take into the mind; to comprehend, understand.
1726. Fleming’s Fulfill. Script. (ed. 5). Table Scots Phr., Uptake, to understand a thing.
1829. Brockett, N. C. Gloss. (ed. 2).
1839. R. M. M‘Cheyne, in Bonar, Mem. (1844), 195. Have you really and fully uptaken Christ as the gospel lays him down?
1898. C. Spence, From Braes of the Carse, 32. What a pity the Laird is so dull!.. For certes he doesna uptak’ what I mean.
