upgive

present singular third person upgives · participle present upgiving · past upgave · participle past upgiven

1. poetictransitiveobsolete except in Scots lawTo give up or yield up.

   Then, too, are Jersey's sons all resolute, / Repairing to the camp in numbers great, / Their sufferings to avenge upon the foe, / Which all must cease should Jersey be upgiven.

   1849, Robert Wharton Landis, Liberty's Triumph: A Poem, page 255

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   […] we hereby resign, surrender, upgive, overgive and deliver, ALL and WHOLE — (here the lands were described) — together with all right, title and interest whatever […]

   1811, Robert Bell, A System of the Forms of Deeds Used in Scotland, page 116

   There fell a sudden rain then, from the gods: / Which glisters, in the sun, like golden hairs; / And earth upgave sweet savour of her sod, / Mingled with iron stink of sweat and blood.

   1906, Charles Montagu Doughty, The Dawn in Britain, page 4