To Rise  An Uprise Position Noun Act Instance

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

 DATE  14th century

stand up

 DATE  14th century

up·rise
I. \|əp|rīz\ intransitive verb
(up·rose \-rōz\ ; also archaic up·rist \-rist\ ; up·ris·en \-riz^ən\ ; also archaic uprist ; uprising ; uprises)
Etymology: Middle English uprisen, from up + risen to rise — more at 
1. 
 a. : to rise to a higher position
  < the lands were uprising and new mountains were rearing their heads — W.E.Swinton >
 b. 
  (1) : to get up on one's feet : stand up
  (2) : to get out of bed
 c. : to come into view from below; especially : to come into view from below the horizon
  < the glorious sun uprist — S.T.Coleridge >
2. : to rise from the dead or the underworld
3. : to rise up in or as if in rebellion
4. : to become existent
 < since earth uprose — P.B.Shelley >
5. : to rise up in sound
 < the whisper of gongs and trumpets uprose again — James Hilton >
• up·ris·er \-zə(r)\ noun
II. \ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun
1. : an act or instance of uprising: as
 a. : the rising of a celestial body (as the sun) : 
 b. : an act or instance of rising to a higher position
  < the uprise of the flood waters >
 c. : an act or instance of becoming existent or prominent : 
  < the uprise of a new school of painters >
 d. : a direct rise from the end of a backward swing to a position of rest on a gymnastic apparatus (as the horizontal bar or flying rings)
2. : the beginning of a rise in the land : an increase in elevation
 < the horizon at which the plains end and, with a swift dramatic uprise, the world of the mountains begins — Wynford Vaughan-Thomas >