Definition of Surceased

1. Verb. (past of surcease) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Surceased

1. surcease [v] - See also: surcease

Lexicographical Neighbors of Surceased

surbases
surbasing
surbate
surbated
surbates
surbating
surbed
surbedded
surbedding
surbeds
surbet
surburbanite
surburbanites
surceasance
surcease
surceased (current term)
surceases
surceasing
surcharge
surchargeable
surcharged
surchargement
surchargements
surcharger
surchargers
surcharges
surcharging
surcingle
surcingled
surcingles

Literary usage of Surceased

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"Hereupon afterwards the nobility surceased making more suits unto him, as ineffectual, and even left all things to his own disposal. ..."

2. The Paradise Lost by John Milton (1851)
"At his approach The great Arch-Angel from his warlike toil surceased, and glad, ... surceased: Ceased. 262. These speeches, that follow, give breath to the ..."

3. Cases on Civil Procedure by William H. Loyd (1916)
"... for if no evidence was given, yet they shall give their verdict for the one party or the other, and the earl has not surceased his time to show this ..."

4. The Presidential Counts: A Complete Official Record of the Proceedings of (1877)
"Congress is not bound to receive their members, or to treat them ns being regular, loyal, integral members of this Union because they have surceased ..."

5. Reeves' History of the English Law: From the Time of the Romans, to the End by John Reeves, William Francis Finlason (1869)
"... to call upon the justices for further process, they surceased to give it him ; but if it was directed to them, they need not pay obedience to the writ. ..."

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