upsoar
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upsoar (third-person singular simple present upsoars, present participle upsoaring, simple past and past participle upsoared)
- To soar upward.
- 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 15”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
- on the right up-soar'd in air / The hawk, Apollo's swift-wing'd messenger
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “upsoar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)