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Definition of Surceases
1. surcease [v] - See also: surcease
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surceases
Literary usage of Surceases
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Yoga Philosophy: Being the Text of Patanjali, with Bhoja Raja's Commentary. by Patañjali, Bhojarāja, Tookaram Tatya (1885)
"... cause or reason ' of what is to be shunned,' — of pain — of the world in the
shape of a modification of the Qualities > — because when this surceases, ..."
2. Tales of My Landlord by Walter Scott, Jedidiah Cleishbotham, Robert Morton (1820)
"... and I hope that the stones of it will no longer rest on each other when it
surceases to be as much at their command as at ours. And this reminds me, ..."
3. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1843)
"... the power which aids in progression, Let it be what you please, is What quickly
surceases In the ratio in which elevation increases. ..."
4. The Financial History of the United States, from 1861 to 1885 by Albert Sidney Bolles (1894)
"... though conscious of no wrong, of perfect rectitude of intentions, when brought
into the dissecting-room of the seizure bureau, he surceases opposition, ..."
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