Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Surcease"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Surcease \Sur*cease"\, n. [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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Surcease \Sur*cease"\, v. t.
To cause to cease; to end. [Obs.] ``The waves . . . their
range surceast.'' --Spenser.
The nations, overawed, surceased the fight. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Surcease \Sur*cease"\, v. i.
To cease. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
surcease
n : a stopping; "a cessation of the thunder" [syn: {cessation}]
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