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up

Definition of up:

part of speech: interjection

Arise; raise up.

part of speech: preposition

From a lower place or position to a higher; not down.

part of speech: adverb

Aloft; on high; in a state of advance; in a state of being raised or increased; in a state of climbing or ascending; in a state of insurrection; in a state of elevation; out of bed; into order, as he drew up his company; much used in modifying the action of a verb.

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metaphysics

The science of mind or intelligence, as distinguished from the science of natural bodies or matter; philosophy in the general sense of the term, together with psychology. Note.- So called by the ancients, because they considered the science of natural bodies or physics the first in order of study, and the science of mind the second; but the name more probably arose from the simple fact that the writings of the first philosophy came after the physical treatises of the author. ...

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