Meanings
verbupbray (third-person singular simple present upbrays, present participle upbraying, simple past and past participle upbrayed)
present singular third person upbrays · participle present upbraying · participle past upbrayed · past upbrayed
- obsoleteTo upbraid.
He wexed wondrous wroth, and said, Vile knight, / That knights & knighthood doest with shame vpbray […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
Back-formation from upbrayd, obsolete past participle of upbraid.
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Chicago
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