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Definition of Surbate
1. v. t. To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel.
Definition of Surbate
1. Verb. (obsolete) To bruise, hurt (the feet, hooves etc.) from walking. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Surbate
1. to bruise [v SURBATED, SURBET or SURBATED, SURBATING, SURBATES] - See also: bruise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surbate
Literary usage of Surbate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, in Two Parts ...by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto (1827)
"... perigos,&c. da per na, ou que esta ne] la. Sui.inue,s. Ve Assurance. To surbate,
va magoar, pisar, ou estropear os pes com ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... surbate, to tire out the feet with walking. Spenser, FQ iii. 4. ... or surbate'.
surcease, prop. a law-term, a delay allowed or ordered by authority; ..."
3. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"... Lest they their fins should bruise, and surbate sore Their tender feet upon
the stony ground : And coming to the place where all in gore And crudely ..."
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