upsteal en · VERB
Etymology
From up- + steal.
Meanings
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(intransitive, poetic) To steal or creep upward.
Yet, maybe, in some soul, / In some spot undiscerned on sea or land, some impulse rose, / Or some intent upstole / Of that enkindling ardency from whose maturer glows / The world's amendment flows.
1901, Thomas Hardy, A Commonplace Day:[…] Or the potter, from whose wheel / Fair and finished shapes upsteal, / As by magic of command, / Guided by the loving hand.
1905, Bliss Carman, Poems, volume 2, page 212:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| upsteals | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| upstolen | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| upstealing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| upstole | Tense=Past | lexicographic |