Sc. [UP- 6.] a. Engrossing, absorbing. b. Quick in understanding; intelligent.
1737. J. Willison, Afflicted Man’s Comp., i. (1744), 13. This should be the great and uptaking Business of every Man.
1756. Mrs. Calderwood, in Coltness Collect. (Maitl. Cl.), 148. Though they [the Dutch] have no vivacity, yet I think they are … smarter, a great deall, than the English, that is, more uptaking.
