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Definition of Surceasing
1. surcease [v] - See also: surcease
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surceasing
Literary usage of Surceasing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1862)
"Abatable process is not void, and the forbearing to sue, or surceasing, abatable
process, is as good a consideration, as the forbearance or ..."
2. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond, Thomas Day (1824)
"So, in consideration, that the plaintiff, to whom a debt was assigned, will
forbear a stranger, R. Hard. 74. (B 2.) surceasing of a suit. ..."
3. Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar in Relation to Contemporary Affairs by James Jackson Higginson (1912)
"... for English Verse: having had thereof already great practise, and drawen mee
to their faction."™ This scheme for the "surceasing and silence of balde ..."
4. Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar in Relation to Contemporary Affairs by James Jackson Higginson (1912)
"... for English Verse: having had thereof already great practise, and drawen mee
to their faction."" This scheme for the "surceasing and silence of balde ..."
5. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1881)
"... for five years past, no probable Reason can be assigned for their surceasing
it but the presumption that he did belong to the Church at Marblehead, &c. ..."
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