upcheer
English
Etymology
Verb
upcheer (third-person singular simple present upcheers, present participle upcheering, simple past and past participle upcheered)
- (transitive, archaic) To cheer up.
- Synonyms: elate, happify; see also Thesaurus:gladden
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The sad Briana which all this beheld ;
Who comming forth yet full of late affray Sir Calidore upcheard