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up-stige

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
up-stige, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§590;
ascension, mounting
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  • Nis bútan tweón tó understandenne se upstige and se niþerstige (

    the ascending and descending on Jacob's ladder

    ) on náne óþere wísan, bútan ðæt heofona ríces upstige mid eádmódnesse geearnod bið and mid oferméttum forwyrht,
      R. Ben. 23, 6-9.

  • Hé becom tó ðæm heáhsetle ðære róde; on ðæm upstige (

    by the ascent of the cross

    ) eall úre líf hé getremede,
      Blickl. Homl. 9, 36.

  • Seó dún stent ... twelf míla on upstige fram ánre byrig there is an ascent of twelve miles from the town to the hill, Homl. Th. i. 502, 6. ¶ especially

    the ascension

    of Christ to heaven :-- Ðone mǽron symbeldæg Drihtnes upstiges,
      Blickl. Homl. 131, 11: Exon. Th. 41, 13; Cri. 655.

  • Æfter upstige écan Dryhtnes,

      44. 31; Cri. 711: 38, 31; Cri. 615: Blickl. Homl. 137, 23: Homl. Th. i. 324, 31.

  • Æfter Cristes upstige tó heofonum,

      58, 24: ii. 380, 24: H. R. 3, 4.

  • Uppstige on heofonas,

      Bd. 3, 17; S. 545, 23.
an ascent, a way of ascending
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  • Uppstige sandfull

    ascensus arenosus,

      Scint. 223, 13.

  • Se seteþ wolcan upstige his

    qui ponit nubem ascensum suum,

      Ps. Surt. Lamb. 103, 3.
Etymology
[Cf. O. H. Ger. úf-stíc ascensus: Icel. upp-stiga.]
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “up-stige.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/34085.

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  • up-stige, n.

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