Definition of Surbate

1. v. t. To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel.

Definition of Surbate

1. Verb. (obsolete) To bruise, hurt (the feet, hooves etc.) from walking. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Surbate

1. to bruise [v SURBATED, SURBET or SURBATED, SURBATING, SURBATES] - See also: bruise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Surbate

sural
suramin
suramins
surance
surances
surangular
suras
surat
surats
surbahar
surbahars
surbase
surbased
surbases
surbasing
surbate (current term)
surbated
surbates
surbating
surbed
surbedded
surbedding
surbeds
surbet
surburbanite
surburbanites
surceasance
surcease
surceased
surceases

Literary usage of Surbate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, in Two Parts ...by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto (1827)
"... perigos,&c. da per na, ou que esta ne] la. Sui.inue,s. Ve Assurance. To surbate, va magoar, pisar, ou estropear os pes com ..."

2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... surbate, to tire out the feet with walking. Spenser, FQ iii. 4. ... or surbate'. surcease, prop. a law-term, a delay allowed or ordered by authority; ..."

3. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"... Lest they their fins should bruise, and surbate sore Their tender feet upon the stony ground : And coming to the place where all in gore And crudely ..."

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