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Definition of Survived

1. survive [v] - See also: survive

Lexicographical Neighbors of Survived

Literary usage of Survived

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

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery in the by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Beames (1818)
"... of which Mary Hitter Interest to the separate Use for the joint Lives of Husband and Wife, if she survived, for her Heirs and Executors : if he survived ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"That, the son having died before the life tenant, leaving children who survived the latter, his remainder share became indefeasible upon the death of such ..."

3. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1901)
"When the mode of contracting a marriage altered, the earlier mode, from having been a reality, survived as a ceremony. Thus, as we have seen, the custom of ..."

4. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1891)
"In other instances the custom of purchase has survived as a ceremony, after it has ceased to be a reality. According as marriage was recognized as a matter ..."

5. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1894)
"In other instances the custom of purchase has survived as a ceremony, after it has ceased to be a reality. According as marriage was recognized as a matter ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"I He survived his friend and master only six months. The Armenians read his name in the Canon of the Mass, and celebrate his memory on 19 February. (1872). ..."

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