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English
Etymology
From up- + steal.
Verb
upsteal (third-person singular simple present upsteals, present participle upstealing, simple past upstole, past participle upstolen)
- (poetic, intransitive) To steal or creep upward.
1905, Bliss Carman, Poems, volume 2, page 212:[…] Or the potter, from whose wheel / Fair and finished shapes upsteal, / As by magic of command, / Guided by the loving hand.
1901, Thomas Hardy, A Commonplace Day:Yet, maybe, in some soul, / In some spot undiscerned on sea or land, some impulse rose, / Or some intent upstole / Of that enkindling ardency from whose maturer glows / The world's amendment flows.
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