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upsteal

verb

Etymology

From up- + steal.

  1. derived from *tsel-✻
  2. derived from *stel(H)-✻
  3. derived from *ster-✻
  4. prefixed as upsteal — “up + steal”

Definitions

  1. To steal or creep upward.

    • […] Or the potter, from whose wheel / Fair and finished shapes upsteal, / As by magic of command, / Guided by the loving hand.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA