Surcease
Pronunciation : Sur*cease"
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [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.]
Definition : Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Sur*cease"
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To cause to cease; to end. [Obs.] "The waves . . . their range surceast." Spenser. The nations, overawed, surceased the fight. Dryden.
t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Sur*cease"
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To cease. [Obs.]
i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913