upstay

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1)  To sustain, support.
 * 2) * 1820, The River Duddon A Series of Sonnets, XXVIII, Journey Renewed:
 * Close to the vital seat of human clay; / Glad meetings, tender partings, that upstay
 * 1) * 1910, The Aeneid of Virgil as translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor:
 * In front, a massive gateway threats the sky, / And posts of solid adamant upstay / An iron tower, firm-planted to defy / All force, divine or human. Night and day,
 * 1) * 1917, Henry Charles Beeching, The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, 246, The Tree of Life
 * Lighten, O sword divine, to clear my way, / And thou, O happy heart, upstay
 * Lighten, O sword divine, to clear my way, / And thou, O happy heart, upstay