stand upon

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verbstand upon (third-person singular simple present stands upon, present participle standing upon, simple past and past participle stood upon)

present singular third person stands upon · participle present standing upon · participle past stood upon · past stood upon

Synonym of stand on
And ſo I would ſir, good my ſaucie companion! an' you were out o' mine vncles ground, I can tell you; though I doe not ſtand vpon my gentilitie neither in't.
1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 8
Synonyms: stand on

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