upmount

English

Etymology

up- +‎ mount

Verb

upmount (third-person singular simple present upmounts, present participle upmounting, simple past and past participle upmounted)

  1. (poetic, archaic, ambitransitive) To mount.
    • 1862, Robert Ripley, Shadow and Substance, and Other Poems, page 68:
      A glorious spirit may upmount the skies
    • 1869, William Henry Hamilton Rogers, Wanderings in Devon (page 156)
      Wings hath he too, as thee, but the bright day / Ne'er tempts him to upmount and soar away.
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