Underprop

Word UNDERPROP
Character 9
Hyphenation un der prop
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Underprop"

What do we mean by underprop?

To prop (something) from below. transitive verb

To prop from beneath; support; uphold.

To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. transitive verb

To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold, prop up. verb

To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold, prop up.

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The word "underprop" in example sentences

But, I pray, doth the word underprop or approve the use of anything indifferent, if it be not used according to the foresaid rules, and, by consequence, conveniently and profitably? ❋ George Gillespie (1630)

_Wheras_ "(Landor's spelling)" I am trying to underprop, not to undermine; I am trying to stop the man-milliner at his ungainly work of trimming and flouncing; I am trying to show how graceful is our English, not in its stiff decrepitude, not in its riotous luxuriance, but in its hale mid-life. ❋ Various (N/A)

Now it was I who steadied her leap across a chasm; now came her turn to underprop my foothold till I clambered to a ledge whence I could reach down a hand and drag her up to me. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

Cavendish goes on to observe that Sir Walter was in wonderful declination, yet laboured to underprop himself by my Lord Treasurer and his friends. ❋ Unknown (1879)

I come now to your proof, which indeed is no proof of this anti-gospel assertion, but texts abused, and wrested out of their place, to serve to underprop your erroneous doctrine. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)

Thus Atlas and Hercules clubbed to raise and underprop the falling sky, if you'll believe the wise mythologists, but they raised it some half an inch too high, Atlas to entertain his guest Hercules more pleasantly, and ❋ Fran��ois Rabelais (1518)

VVhcfe counfels now mufi; underprop their throne Againft the foe, which not a man but fears; ❋ Unknown (1795)

Or with nw fingle Arm to underprop A falling Tower; nay, in its vicdent Courfe To flop the Lightening, than to ftay a Woman Ta Hurritd a: 6 CRITICAL REFLECTIONS Hurried by two Furies, Luft and Falmood, ❋ Unknown (1774)

Ihall my weary arms infold f\nd underprop my panting fides for ever \ ❋ Unknown (1658)

” “That is questionless, ” quoth Anselmo, all to underprop and give Lothario more credit with Camilla, who was as careless of the cause (her husband said so) as she was enamoured of Lothario; and therefore with the delight she took in his compositions, but chiefly knowing that his desires and labours were addressed to herself, who was the true Chloris, she entreated him to repeat some other sonnet or ditty, if he remembered any. ❋ Unknown (1909)

And if exhortance will not prevail with you, I charge you in the name of the great God, and His Son Jesus Christ, to whom one day ye must give your account, that ye in nowise underprop this mountain; the which if ye obey, I am sure the Lord will bless you, and your posterity; but if ye will not, though ye were never so high a mountain in this kingdom, ye shall become a plain. ❋ Various (1876)

Thus Atlas and Hercules clubbed to raise and underprop the falling sky, if you’ll believe the wise mythologists, but they raised it some half an inch too high, Atlas to entertain his guest Hercules more pleasantly, and Hercules to make himself amends for the thirst which some time before had tormented him in the deserts of Africa. ❋ Unknown (2002)

These "mimical Christians" reform their looks, instruct their tongues, take up the fitting set of duties and system of opinions, underprop their religion with sacred performances; "chameleon-like, they even turn their insides to whatever hue and colour" is demanded of religion; they "furnish this domestick ❋ Rufus Matthew Jones (1905)

"He cut the head off, but he did not underprop it alone. ❋ Henryk Sienkiewicz (1881)

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