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Webster 1913 Edition
Surcease
Sur-cease′
,Noun.
[F.
sursis
, from sursis
, p. p. of surseoir
to suspend, postpone, defer, in OF., to delay, refrain from, forbear, L. supersedere
. Surcease
is not connected with E. cease
. See Supersede
.] Cessation; stop; end.
“Not desire, but its surcease.” Longfellow.
It is time that there were an end and
surcease
made of this immodest and deformed manner of writing. Bacon.
Sur-cease′
,Verb.
T.
To cause to cease; to end.
[Obs.]
“The waves . . . their range surceast.” Spenser.
The nations, overawed,
surceased
the fight. Dryden.
Sur-cease′
,Verb.
I.
To cease.
[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Surcease
SURCE'ASE
, v.i.1.
To cease; to stop; to be at an end.2.
To leave off; to practice no longer; to refrain finally. So pray'd he, whilst an angel's voice from high,
Bade him surcease to importune the sky.
[This word is entirely useless, being precisely synonymous with cease, and it is nearly obsolete.]
SURCE'ASE
,Verb.
T.
SURCE'ASE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
surcease
surcease
English
Noun
surcease (uncountable)
- Cessation; stop; end.
- Longfellow
- Not desire, but its surcease.
- Francis Bacon
- It is time that there were an end and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writing.
- 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, pg. 217:
- For the individual who wishes to live in his time, to be a part of the future, the super-industrial revolution offers no surcease from change.
- 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore —
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore —
Nameless here for evermore.
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
- Longfellow
Verb
surcease (third-person singular simple present surceases, present participle surceasing, simple past and past participle surceased)