Chiefly Sc. [UP- 7, or f. UPTAKE v.]
In Sc. use also with stress u·pta:king.
† 1. The source of a stream. Obs.–1
Probably after ON. upptaka in the same sense.
1241–51. Cockersand Chartul. (Chetham Soc. 56), 854. Terram quæ jacet inter Arkelbec et stagnum molendini ad huptaking et est longitudo a le huptaking usque ad terram Margeriæ.
† 2. The action of sustaining; sustenance, support. Obs.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter lxxxviii. 18. For of lauerd es oure vptakinge [L. adsumptio].
1388. Wyclif, Ps. cvii. 9. Effraym is the vptaking [L. susceptio] of myn heed.
1447. Bokenham, Seyntys (Roxb.), 46. The uptakyng of oure frele nature Whiche wyth synne was almost schent.
† 3. Sc. a. = UPLIFTING vbl. sb. 2. Obs.
1471. in Charters, &c. Edin. (1871), 134. In the rasing, vptakin and paying of the said custumes.
1512. Reg. Privy Seal Scot., I. 374. That ȝe ceis fra all intrometting and uptaking of the saidis thre lastis of salmond.
c. 1578. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 164. The rowmes and rentis quhilk they war in wse and possessioun affoir of wptaking thairof.
1594. [see UPLIFTING vbl. sb. 2].
a. 1670. Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (1850), I. 78. They fell in sum wordis about the vptaking of this fyne. Ibid., 133. Quhilk bred gryte truble in vptaking of the rentall.
† b. The levy or raising of forces. Obs.–1
a. 1578. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.), II. 243. The laird … passit … to Dundie … for vptaking of men of weir.
† c. (See DITTAY.) Obs.–1
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., Stat. Alex. II., 15. Vptaking of dittay and pvnissing of malefactours.
† 4. Sc. ? Drawing together, gathering. Obs.–1
1503. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., II. 203. For ane elne lynnyne to the platis uptaking of the crammesy cote, xiiij d.
5. Sc. A raising, picking, or lifting up.
1495. Acta Dom. Conc. (1839), 394/2. Þe wrangwis … vptaking of þer merchis and stanis.
1503. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., II. 356. For uptaking of certane treis … and carying of thaim to Strivelin.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, IX. vi. 116. Behind thame, for vptakyng quhayr it lay, Mony brycht armour rychly dycht thai left.
1576. in Balfour, Oppr. in Orkney & Shetl. (1859), 69. The allegeit uptaking of ane pece see-drewin tre.
1613. P. Forbes, Comm. Revelation, xii. (1614), 103. The exalting of the childe, is the deiecting of the Dragon from heauen: and the deiection of the Dragon, is the vptaking of the childe.
1888. C. P. Brown, Cotton Manuf., 163. Uptaking, Sc. for the take-up motion.
† 6. Sc. The action of leading the psalm; precenting. Obs.
1579. Burgh Rec. Edin. (1882), IV. 126. His yeirlie stepend for vptaking of the psalmes in the kirk.
1599. Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1848), II. 204. To Patrik Walter for the vptacking of the psalme in the new kirk.
1618. Extr. Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887), 150. The soume of ten merkis in feall for uptaking of the psalmes.
7. Sc. A receiving into or grasping with the mind; comprehension, conception, understanding.
1614. W. Cowper, Dikailogie, 85. Your errour proceeds from the wrong vptaking of the question.
1663. Blair, Autobiog., ii. (1848), 32. I was thereby much satisfied and confirmed by his uptaking of the nature and notion of faith.
1730. T. Boston, Mem., v. (1899), 59. My preaching … by degrees … ripened into a more clear uptaking of the doctrine of the gospel.
a. 1749. E. Erskine, Wks. (1791), 683/1. It has in it a knowledge and uptaking of a God in Christ.
1811. Chalmers, Lett., in Hanna, Life (1851), I. 228. Aunty Jean tries to help out the matter by the uptakings of her quick and confident discernment.
1839. R. M. M‘Cheyne, in Bonar, Mem. (1844), 195. How many that have no uptaking of Christ, and are yet cold-hearted and at ease?
