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English
Etymology
From up- + caught.
Adjective
upcaught (not comparable)
- (archaic) Seized or caught up.
1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book XII.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, , volume II, London: J Johnson, , →OCLC, page 279, lines 117–118:In ev'ry mouth / She [Scylla] bears upcaught a mariner away.
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