Meanings
present singular third person uprides · participle present upriding · past uprode · participle past upridden
- raretransitiveto ride up (all senses)
But the storm abates — uprides the moon Like a ship upon the sea: Now on, my steeds! […]
1852, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The Postboy's Song5 more examples
Through her sky-field insensibly she glides Among her star-flowers blooming in the night, Of all their crowd unconscious, till the hour When, as young Morn uprides […]
1886, Henry Septimus Sutton, PoemsThen gently uprode Gawain, And he spurred not his steed to gallop, nor conflict nor strife he sought […]
1891, Wolfram (von Eschenbach.), Parzifal; A Knightly Epic - Volumes 1[…] so shaping or tonguing the back and front lower borders of the bandage over the pelvic crest and sacral regions that the napkin can be easily pinned upon it and by its downward draw tend to prevent the inclination of the binder to upride.
1905, The Dietetic & Hygienic Gazette - Volume 21As it is forced down, the arms, normally crossed over the chest, are caught on the pelvis and made to upride alongside the head.
1910, Henry Enos Tuley, Obstetrical nursing, for nurses and studentsWhilst we were thus talking, there came up another youth of tenderer age, but of no less gracious mien, who bore news of the arrival of his father who had returned from overlooking his estate. And with that uprode the father himself followed by a groom and another servitor, also on horseback; and he dismounted and straightway came up the stair.
1968, William Boulting, Tasso and His Times
Origin
- Middle Englishupriden
- Englishupride
From Middle English upriden, equivalent to up- + ride.
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upride. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/upride
“upride.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/upride. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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