Cew. SURPRISE.; } That you have vouchsaf'd my poor house to The greatest actions of a celebrated person, visit, however surprising and extraordinary, are no It is a surplus of your grace. Sbakspeare. more than what are expected from him. Spectator. over surplus tillage, and break no more ground. SURPRI'SINGLY. adv. [from surprising.) We made a substance so disposed to fluidity, To a degree that raises wonder; in a that by so small an agitation as only the sure manner that raises wonder. If out of these ten thousand we should take plusage of that which the ambient air is wont to have about the middle even of a winter's day, the men that are employed in publick business, above what it hath in the first part. Boyle the number of those who remain will be surThe officers spent all, so as there was no sur prizingly little. Addison. plusage of treasure; and yet that all was not SU'RQUEDRY. n. s. (sur and cuider, old sufficient. Davies. French, to think.] Overweening pride; Whatsoever degrees of assent one affords a insolence. Obsolete. proposition beyond the degrees of evidence, it is plain all that surplusage of assurance is owing They overcommen, were deprived not to the love of truth. Locke. Of their proud beauty, and the one moiety Transform'd to fish for their bold surguedry. SURPRI's AL. n. s. (surprise, Fr, from Spenser. the verb.] Late-born modesty 1. The act of taking unawares; the state Hath got such root in easy waxen hearts, of being taken unawares. That men may not themselves their own good Parents should mark heedfully the witty ex. parts cuses of their children, especially at suddains and Extol, without suspect of surguedry. Donne, surprisals; but rather mark than pamper them. SURREBU'TTER. N. s. [In law.] A second Wotton, rebutter; answer to a rebutter. A term Lest, wilfully transgressing, he pretend in the courts. Surprisel, unadmonish’d, unforewarn'd. Milton. SURREJOI'NDER. n. s. (surrejoindre, Fr. I set aside the taking of St. Jago and St. Do In law.] A second defence of the plaint. mingo in Hispaniola, as surprizes rather than encounters. ift's action, opposite to the rejoinder Bacon. This strange surprisal put the knight of the defendant, which the civilians call And wrathful squire into a fright. Hudibras, triplicatio Bailey. There is a vast difference between them, as TO SURRENDER. v. a. (surrendre, old vast as between inadvertency and deliberation, between uprize and set purpose. Soutb. French.] He whose thoughts are employed in the 1. To yield up; to deliver up. weighty cares of empire, is not presumed to in Solemn dedication of churches serves not only spect minuter things so carefully as private per to make them publick, but further also to sur.. sons; the laws therefore relieve him against the render up that right which otherwise their foundsurprises and machinations of deceitful men. ers might hava in them, and to make God him Davenant. Hooker, 2. A dish, I suppose, which has nothing Recall those grants, and we are ready to suro render ours, resume all or none. Davenant. in it. Few care for carving trifes in disguise, 2. To deliver up to an enemy: sometimes Or that fantastick dish some call surprise. with up emphatical. King's Cookery. Ripe age bade him surrender late 3. Sudden confusion or perplexity. His life and long good fortune unto final fate. TO SURPRISE. v. a. (surpris, Fr. from Fairfax. He, willing to surrender up the castle, for de surprendre.] his soldiers to have any talk with the enemy. 1. To take unawares; to fall upon unex. Knolles. pectedly. Surrender up to me thy captive breath; The castle of Macduff I will surprise, My pow'r is nature's pow'r, my name is Death. Seize upon File, give to the edge oth' sword Harte. His wife, his babes. Shakspeare. To SURRE'NDER. v. n. To yield; to give Now do our ears before our eyes, one's self up. · Like men in mists, This mighty Archimedes too surrendars now. Discover who'd the state surprize, Glanville, Ben Jonsex. SURRENDER. n. s. [from the verb.] Lest, by some fair appearing good surpriz'd, Sie dictate false, and misinform the will. Milt. 1. The act of yielding: How shall he keep, what, sleeping or awake, Our general mother, with eyes Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd, And meek surrender, half-embracing lean'd The mingled passions shat surpriz'd his heart! On our first father. Milton. Tlomson. Having mustered up all the forces he could, the clouds above and the deeps below, he pre2. To astonish by something wonderful. People were not so much frighted as surprized pares for a surrender; asserting, from a mistaken at the bigness of the camel. L'Estrange. computation, that all these will not come up 3. To confuse or perplex by sometbing near the quantity requisite. Woodward. Juba's surrender sudden. Would give up Africk unto Cæsar's hands. Up he starts, discover'd and surpris d. Milt. Addison, SURPRISING. participial adj. [from sus- 2. The act of resigning or giving up to an. prise.] Wonderful; raising sudden won. other. der or concern, If our father carry authority with snch dis SURRENDER:} a position as he bears, this last surrender of his will so that he was forced to wear a wrtout of oiled but offend us. Sbakspeare. cloth, by which means he came home pretty That hope quickly vanished upon the un- clean, except where the surtout was a little scanty. doubted intelligence of that surrender. Clarendon. Arbuthnes. As oppressed states made themselves homagers To SURVE'NE, v. a. (survenir, Fr.] To to the Romans to engage their protection, so we should have made an entire surrendry of our supervene; to come as an addition. Hippocrates mentions a suppuration that sero selves to God, that we might have gained a title venes lethargies, which commonly terminates in to his deliverances. Decay of Piety. Harvey. TO SURVEʻY. v. a. (surveoir, old Fr.] quired a surrender on the giver's part of all the property he has in it; and to the making of a 1. To overlook; to have under the view; thing sacred, this surrender by its right owner is to view as from a higher place. necessary. South. Round he surveys, and well might where he SURRE'PTION. n. s. (surreptus, Latin.] stood, Sudden and unperceived invasion or in. So high above. Milton Though with those streams he no resemblance trusion. hold, Sins compatible with a regenerate estate, are sins of a sudden surreption. Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold; Hammond, His genuine and less guilty wealth t'explore, SURREPTITIOUS. adj. surreptitius, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore: Lat.] Done by stealth; gotten or pro Denban, duced fraudulently. 2. To oversee as one in authority. Scaliger hath not translated the first; perhaps 3. To view as examining. supposing it surreptitious, or unworthy so great The husbandman's self came that way, an assertion. Brown. Of custom to survey his ground. Spenser. The Masorites numbered not only the Early abroad he did the world survey, sections and lines, but even the words and let- As if he knew he had not long to stay. Waller. ters, of the Old Testament, the better to secure With alter'd looks it from surreptitious practices. All pale and speechless, he survey'd me round. Government of the Tongue. Dryden. A correct copy of the Dunciad, the many sur- 4. To measure and estimate land or build. reptitious ones have rendered necessary. Letter to Publisher of Pope's Dunciad. ings. Surve'y, a. s. (from the verb.] SURREPTITIOUSLY. adv. (from surrepo 1. View ; prospect. titious. ] By stealth ; fraudulently; Her stars in all their vast survey Thou hast got it more surreptitiously than he Useless besides! Milton did, and with less effect. Under his proud survey the city lies, Government of the Tongue. And like a mist beneath a hill doth rise. To SO'RROGATE. v. a. (surrogo, Latin.] Dorbes. To put in the place of another. · No longer letted of his prey, SU'RROGATE. n. s. (surrogatus, Lat.) A He leaps up at it with enrag'd desire, O'erlooks the neighbours with a wide surers, deputy; a delegate ; the deputy of an And nods at ev'ry house his threat'ning fire. ecclesiastical judge. Dryden. SURROGA'TION. n. s. (surrogatio, Lat.) 2. Superintendence. The act of putting in another's place. 3. Mensuration. environ; to encompass; to enclose on 1. An overseer; one placed to superintend all sides. others. Yelling monsters that with ceaseless cry Were't not madness then, Surround me, as thou sawest. Milton. To make the fox surveyor of the fold? Sheksu. Cloud and ever-during dark Bishop Fox was not only a grave counsellor for Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men war or peace, but also a good surveyor of works Cut off. Milton. 2. A measurer of land. On wing under the burning cope of hell, Should we survey 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires. The plot of situation, and the model; Milton. As the bodies that surround us diversely affect Question surveyors, know our own estate, How able such a work to undergo, our organs, the mind is forced to receive the im To weigh against his opposite. Sbaksfesti pressions. Locke. Decempeda was a measuring-rod for taking SÜRSO'LID. n. s. [In algebra.] The fourth the dimensions of buildings; from hence came multiplication or power of any number decempedator, for a surveyor, used by Cicero. whatever taken as the root. Trevour. SURSO'LID Problem. rv: [In mathema- SURVE'YORSHIP. n. s. [from surveyor.] ticks.] That which cannot be resolved The office of a surveyor. but by curves of a higher nature than a To Survi'ew. v. a. ['surveoir, old Fr.] conick section. Harris. To overlook; to have in view; to sur SURTOU'T. n. s. (Fr.] A large coat worn vey. Not in use. over all the rest. That turret's frame most admirable was, The surtout if abroad you wear, Like highest heaven compassed around, Repels the rigour of the air; And lifted high above this earthly mass, Would you be warmer, if at home Which it surview'd, as hills do lower ground. You had the fabrick, and the loom ! Prior. Spenser. Sir Roger she mortally hated, and used to TO SURVIVE. v. n. [supervivo, Latin ; hire fellows to squirt kennel-water upon him, survivre, French.] Becor 1 Arbutbnet. . j. To live after the death of another. less used, than susceptible.] Capable to I'll assure her of admit. Her widowhood, be it that she survives me, Since our nature is so susceptive of errours of In all my lands and leases whatsoever. Shaksp. all sides, it is fit we should have notices given us Those that survive, let Rome reward with how far other persons may become the causes of love. Sbakspeare. false judgments. Watts. Try pleasure, SUSCIPIENCY. n. s. [from suscipient.] Which, when no other enemy survives, Still conquers all the conquerors. Denban. Reception ; admission. 2. To live after any thing. SUSCIPIENT. n. s. (suscipiens, Latin.) Now that he is dead, his immortal fame sur One who takes; one that admits or revivetb, and flourisheth in the mouths of all peo ceives. ple. Spenser. To SU'SCITATE. v. n. (susciter, Fr. The love of horses which they had alive, suscito, Lat.) To rouse; to excite. And care of chariots, after death survive. Dryd. It concurreth but unto predisposed effects, and The rhapsodies, called the characteristicks, only suscitates those forms whose determinations would never have survived the first edition, if are seminal, and proceed from the idea of themthey had not discovered so strong a tincture of selves. Brown. intidelity. Watts. SUSCITA’TION.n. s. [suscitation, Fr. from 3. To remain alive. No longer now that golden age appears, suscitate.] The act of rousing or exWhen patriarch-wits surviv'd a thousand years; citing Now length of fame, our second life, is lost, To Suspe'ct. v. a. (suspicio, suspectum, And bare threescore is all ev'n that can boast; Latin.] Our sons their father's failing language see, 1. To imagine with a degree of fear and And such as Chaucer is, shall Dryden be. Pope. jealousy what is not known. T. SURVI'V E. v. a. To outlive. Nothing makes a man suspect much, more SURVI'VER. n. s. [from sarvive.] One than to know little ; and therefore men should who outlives another. remedy suspicion by procuring to know more. Your father lost a father, Bacon, That father, his; and the survivor bound Let us not then suspect our happy state, As not secure. Milton, In filial obligation, for some term, To do obsequious sorrow, Shakspeare. From her hand I could suspect no ill, Milton. Although some died, the father beholding so 2. To imagine guilty without proof. many descents, the number of survivors must Though many poets may suspect themselves still be very great Brown. for the partiality of parents to their youngest I did discern children, I know myself too well to be ever saFrom his survivors, I could nothing learn. tisfied with my own conceptions. Dryden. Denbam, Some would persuade us that body and exHer majesty is heir to the survivor of the late tension are the same thing, which changes the king. Swift. signification of words; which I would not suspect SURVI'VERSHIP. n. s. [from surviver.] them of, they having so severely condemned the philosophy of others. Locke. The state of outliving another. 3. To hold uncertain; to doubt. Such offices granted in reversion were void, I cannot forbear a story which is so well atunless where the grant has been by surviver- tested, that I have no manner of reason to suspect ship. the truth. Addison Susceptibi’LITY. n. s. [from suscepti. To SUSPE'CT. v. n. To imagine guilt. ble.] Quality of admitting; tendency to If I suspect without cause, lec me be your jest. admit. Shekspeare The susceptibility of those influences, and the Suspe'ct. part. adj. (suspect, Fr.] Doubt. effects thereof, is the general providential law ful. whereby other physical beings are governed. Sordid interests or affectation of strange re Hale. lations are not like to render your reports se SUSCEPTIBLE. adj. [suscepible, Fr. spect or partial. Glanville, Prior has accented this improperly on Suspe'ct. n. s. [from the yerb.] Suspithe first syllable.) Capable of admitting; cion ; imagination without proof. Ob. disposed to admit. solete. He moulded him platonically to his own idea, No fancy mine, no other wrong suspect, delighting first in the choice of the materials, Make me, o virtuous shame, thy laws neglect. because he found him susceptible of good form. Sidney. Wotton. The sale of offices and towns in France, In their tender years they are more susceptible If they were known, as the suspect is great, of virtuous impressions than afterwards, when Would make thee quickly hop without a head. solicited by vulgar inclinacions. L'Estrange. Sbakspeare. Children's minds are narrow, and usually suso My most worthy inaster, in whose breast septible but of one thought at once. Locke. Doubt and suspect, alas ! are plac'd too late, Blow with empty words the susceptible fiame. You should have fear'd false times, when you Prior. Sbakspears. SUSCE'PTION. X. s. [susceptus, Lat.] Act There be so many false prints of praise, that a man may justly hold it a suspect. Bacon. A canon, promoted to holy orders before he is Nothing more jealous than a favourite toof a lawful age for the susception of orders, shall wards the waining-time and suspect of satiety. have a voice in the chapter. Aylife. Wotton. SUSCE'PTIVE. adj. İfrom susceptus, Lat. They might hold sure intelligence This word is more analogical, though Among themselves, without suspect t' offend. Danid. Ayliffe. of taking 1 near, If the king ends the differences, and takes Ten days the prophet in suspense remain'd, away the suspect, the case will be no worse than Would no man's fate pronounce; at last code when two duellists enter the field. Suckling. strain'd TO SUSPE'ND. v. a. (suspendre, Tr. sus- By Ithacus, he solemnly design'd Me for the sacritice. Denban, pendo, Latin.] 1. To hang; to make to hang by any 2. Act of withholding the judgment. thing, In propositions, where though the proofs in As 'twixt two equal armies fate view are of most moment, yet there are sufficient Suspends uncertain victory; grounds to suspect that there is fallacy, or proofs Our souls, which, to advance our state, as considerable to be produced on the contrary Were gone out, hung 'ewixt her ard me. Donne. side, there suspense or disseni are often voluntary. Locke. It is reported by Ruftinus, that in the temple of Serapis there was an iron chariot suspended by Whatever necessity determines to the pursuit loadstones; which stones removed, the chariot of real bliss, the same necessity establishes suse fell and was dashed to pieces. Brown. pense, deliberation and scrutiny, whether its 3. To make to depend upon. satisfaction misleads from our true happiness, Lecke. God hath in the scripture suspended the promise of eternal life upon this condition, ihat 3. Stop in the midst of two opposites. without obedience and holiness of life no man For thee the fates, severely kind, ordain shall ever see the Lord. Tillotson. Pope 3. To interrupt; to make to stop for a SUSPE'NSE. adj. [szispensus, Latin.] time, The harmony 1. Held from proceeding. Suspended hell, and took with ravishment The great light of day yet wants to run Much of his race, tho' steep, suspense in heav'n The thronging audience. Milton. Milton The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so 2. Held in doubt; held in expectation. At once suspends their courage and their ferr. The self-same orders allowed, but yet estze Denbam. blished in more wary and suspense manner, as The British dame, fam'd for resistless grace, being to stand in force till God should give the Contends not now but for the second place; opportunity of some general conference what Our love sunded, we neglect the fair, might be best for every of them afterwards to For whom we burn'd, to gaze adoring here. do; had both prevented all occasion of just disGranville, like which others night take, and reserved a 4. To delav; to hinder from proceeding. greater liberty unto the authors thuniselves, of Suspend your indignation against my brother, entering unto further consultation afterwards. Hoekara till you can derive from him better testimony of his inteiit. Shakspeare. This said, he sat; and expectation held His answer did the nymph attend; His locks suspense, awaiting who appear'd Her looks, her sighs, her gestures, all did pray SUSTE'NSION.n. s. (suspension, Fr. from To second or oppose. Milter him; But Godirey wisely did his grant suspend, suspend.] He'doubts the worst, and that a wlule did stay 1. Act of making to hang on any thing. him. Fairfax. 2. Act of making to depend on any thing. To themselves I left them; 3. Act of delaying. For I suspend their doom. Milton. Had we had time to pray, The reasons for suspending the play were ill With thousand vow's and tears we should have founded. Dryden. sought This is the linge on which turns the liberty of intellectualteings, in their steady prosecution Thae sad decree's suspension to have wrought. Wallet. of truc felicity, that they can suspend this prosecution in particular cases, till they have looked 4. Act of withholding or balancing the betore them. Lone. judgment. 5. To keep indetermines. In his Indian relations, wherein are contained A man diay suspend his choice from being de incredible accounts, he is surely to be read with termined for or against the thing proposed, till 5.45pension; those are they which weakened his he has examined whether it be really of a nature authorities with former ages, for he is seldom to make him happy or no. Locke. Brozy. 6. To dobar for a ti ne from the execution The mode of the will, which answers to dubiof an oflice or enjoyment of a revenue. tation, may be called suspension; and that which Good men should not be suspended from the in the fantastick will is obstinacy, is constancy ia exercise of their ministry, and deprived of their the intellectual. Gresc. livelibocd, for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledred indifferent. Sanderson. 5. Interruption; temporary cessation. The bishop of London was summoned for not Nor was any thing done for the better adjust ing things in the time of that suspension, but · suspending Dr. Sharp. Swift. SUSPE'NSE. n. so (suspens, Fr. suspensus, every thing left in the same state of unconcern edness as before. Latin.] 6. Temporary privation of an office : 29, 1. Uncertainty; delay of certainty or de- the clerk incurred suspension. termination ; indetermination. SUSPENSOR Y. adj. [suspensoire, Fr. sus. Till this be done, their good affection towards the safety of the church is acceptable; but the pensus, Lat.] That by which any thing way they prescribe us to preserve it by must hangs. rest in suspense, Hooker. There are several parts peculiar to brutės Such true joy's suspense which are wanting in man, as the seventh or What dream can I prosent to recompense? suspensory muscle of the eye. Weller. SUSPICION. n. S. (suspicion, Fr. suspicio, Claredes nian, Śbakspeare Lat.) The act of suspecting ; imagina- To him that did but yesterday s:spire, There was not such a gracious creature born. tion of something ill without proof. Sbakspeare. This suspicion Miso for the hoggish shrewdness of her brain, and Mopsa for a very unlikely TO SUSTAI'N. v. a. (soustenir, French ; envy, stumbled upon. Sidney. sustineo, Latin.] 1. To bear ; to prop; to hold up.. amongst birds, they cver fly by twilight; they The largeness and lightness of her wings and are to be repressed, or at the least well guarded, tail sustein her without lassitude. More. for they cloud the mind. Bacon Vain is the force of Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of To crush the pillars that the pile sustain. Dryde eyes; For treason is but trusted like a fox, 2. To support; to keep from sinking unWho, ne'er so tame, so cherish'd and lock'd up, der evil. Will have a wild trick of his ancestors. Sbaksp. The admirable curiosity and singular excelThough wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps lency of this design will sustain the pacience, and At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity animate the industry, of him who shall underResigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill take it. Holder. Where no ill seeins. Milton, If he have no comfortable expectations of an other life to sustain him under the evils in this SUSPI'vous. adj. (suspiciosus, Latin.] world, he is of all creatures the most miserable. 1. Inclined to suspect; inclined to imagine Tillotson. ill without proof. Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will 3. To maintain ; to keep, What food for ever be suspicious, and no man can love the Will he convey up thither to sustain person he suspects. South, Milton, 2. Indicating suspicion or fear. But it on her, not she on it, depends;. A wise man will find us to be rogues by our For she the body doth sustain and cherish. faces: we have a suspicious, fearful, constrained Davies. countenance, often turning and slinking through My labour will siestain me. Milton. narrow lanes. Swift. 4. To help; to relieve; to assist, 3. Liable to suspicion ; giving reason to They charged, on pain of perpetual displeaimagine ill. sure, neither to entreat for him, or any way suso They, because the light of his candle too tain him. much drowned theirs, were glad to lay hold on His sons, who seek the tyrant to sustain, so colourable matter, and exceeding forward to And long for arbitrary lords again, traduce him as an author of suspicious innova- He dooms to death, asserting publick right. tions. Hooker. Dryden. I spy a black suspicious threat'ning cloud, 5. To bear; to'endure. That will encounter with our glorious sun. Can Ceyx then sustain to leave his wife. Sbakspeare. And unconcern'd forsake the sweets of life? Authors are suspicious, nor greedily to be Dryden. swallowed, who pretend to deliver antipathies, Shall Turnus then such endless toil sus! sin, sympathies, and the occult abstrusities of things. In fighting fields, and conquer towns in vain? Brown. Dryden. His life Private, unactive, calm, comtemplative, The mind stands collected within herself, and Little suspicious to any king. Milton. sustains the shock with all the force which is naMany mischievous insects are daily at work, tural to her; but a heart in love has its foundato make people of merit suspicious of each other. tions sapred. Addison, Pope. 6. To bear without yielding. SUSPICIOUSLY. adv. [from suspicious.] Sacharissa's beauty 's wine, 1. With suspicion. Which to madness doch inclinc; Such a liquor as no brain 7. So as to raise suspicion. That is mortal can sustain. Waller. His guard, entering the place, found Plangus with his sword in his hand, but not naked, but 7. To suffer; to bear as inflicted. If you omit standing suspiciously enough, to one already The offer of this time, I cannot promise, suspicious. Sidney. But that you shall sustain more new disgraces, SuspI'CIOUSNESS. n. s. [from suspicious.] With these you bear already. Sbakspeare. Tendency to suspicion. Were it I thought death inenac'd would ensue To make my estate known seemed impossi- This my attempt, I would sustain alone ble, by reason of the suspiciousness of Miso, and The worst, and not persuade thee. Milton. my young mistress. Sidney. SUSTAI’N ABLE. adj. [soustenable, Fr. SUSPIR A'TION. n. s. (suspiratio, from from sustain.] That may be sustained. suspiro, Lat.] Sigh; act of fetching the SUSTAI'N ER. n. s. [from sustain.] breath deep. 1. One that props; one that supports. Not customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, 2. One that suffers; a sufferer. That can denote me truly. Shakspeare. Thyself hast a sustainer been Of much affliction in my cause. In deep suspirations we take more large gulplis Chapman. of air to cool our heart, overcharged with love Su'sTENANCE. n. s. [soustenance, Fr.] More. 1. Support; maintenance, To SUSPI'R E. v. n. (suspiro, Latin.] Scarcely allowing himself fit sustenance of life, 1. To sigh; to fetch the breath deep. rather than he would spend those goods for whose sake only he seemed to joy in life. Sidney, 2. It seems in Shakspeare to mean only, to There are unto one end sundry means; as for begin to breathe ; perhaps mistaken for the sustenance of our bodies many kinds of food, respire. many sorts of raiment to cloche our nakedness. Since she birth of Cain, the first male child, Hooker. OY SOYTOWY. |