UPBRAY NOUN a reproach or reproof ...1590 obs. VERB 1. to upbraid; to reproach, reprove, or censure; to find fault with, to carp at ...1581 obs. exc. Eng. dial. 2. of food: to rise in the stomach; to make uneasy with indigestion ...1598 obs. exc. Eng. dial. 3. to give utterance to ...c1600 obs. exc. Eng. dial. ETYMOLOGY an erroneous back-formation from upbrayd, obsolete past tense of upbraid (vb.) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1581 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Harkē a whiles you Portingal. Truly I may selfe haue heard the Iewes obbraying vs christiāns with the same faults, wherwith you do reproch vs now touching disordered life..." From: Against Ierome Osorius Byshopp of Siluane - Walter Haddon and John Foxe Translated by James Bell
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