Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUR-PRIS-ED, pp.

Come upon or taken unawares; struck with something novel or unexpected.

SUR-PRIS-ING, ppr.

1. Falling on or taking suddenly or unawares; striking with something novel; taking by a sudden or unexpected attack.
2. adj. Exciting surprise; extraordinary; of a nature to excite wonder and astonishment; as, surprising bravery; surprising patience; a surprising escape from danger.

SUR-PRIS-ING-LY, adv.

In a manner or degree that excites surprise. He exerted himself surprisingly to save the life of his companion.

SUR-PRIS-ING-NESS, n.

State of being surprising.

SUR'QUED-RY, n. [sur and Norm. Fr. cuider, to think. Qu. Sp. cuidar, to heed. See Heed.]

Overweening pride; arrogance. [Not in use.] – Spenser.

SUR-RE-BUT', v.i. [sur and rebut.]

In legal pleadings, to reply, as a plaintif, to a defendant's rebutter.

SUR-RE-BUT'TER, n.

The plaintif's reply in pleading to a defendant's rebutter. – Blackstone.

SUR-RE-JOIN', v.i. [sur and rejoin.]

In legal pleadings, to reply, as a plaintif to a defendant's rejoinder.

SUR-RE-JOIN'DER, n.

The answer of a plaintif to a defendant's rejoinder.

SUR-REN'DER, n.

1. The act of yielding or resigning one person or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right or of claims.
2. A yielding or giving up.
3. In law, the yielding of an estate by a tenant to the lord, for such purposes as are expressed by the tenant in the act. – Blackstone.

SUR-REN'DER, v.i.

To yield; to give up one's self into the power of another. The enemy seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons.

SUR-REN'DER, v.t. [Fr. se rendre, to yield. Surrender is probably a corruption of se rendre.]

1. To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy, or to commissioners of bankrupt; to surrender a fort or a ship. [To surrender up is not elegant.]
2. To yield; to give up; to resign in favor of another; to surrender a right or privilege; to surrender a place or an office.
3. To give up; to resign; as, to surrender the breath.
4. In law, to yield an estate, as a tenant, into the hands of the lord for such purposes as are expressed in the act. – Blackstone.
5. To yield to any influence, passion or power; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence or to sleep.

SUR-REN'DER-ED, pp.

Yielded or delivered to the power of another; given up; resigned.

SUR-REN-DER-EE', n.

In law, a person to whom the lord grants surrendered land; the cestuy que use.

SUR-REN'DER-ING, ppr.

Yielding or giving up to the power of another; resigning.

SUR-REN'DER-OR, n.

The tenant who surrenders an estate into the bands of his lord. Till the admittance of cestuy que use, the lord takes notice of the surrenderor as his tenant. – Blackstone.

SUR-REN'DRY, n.

A surrender. [Surrender is the most elegant and best authorized.]

SUR-REP'TION, n. [L. surreptus, surrepo; sub and repo, to creep.]

A coming unperceived; a stealing upon insensibly. [Little used.]

SUR-REP-TI'TIOUS, a. [L. surreptitius, supra.]

Done by stealth or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently; as, a surreptitious passage in a manuscript. A correct copy of the Dunciad, the many surreptitious ones have rendered necessary. – Letter to Publisher of Dunciad.

SUR-REP-TI'TIOUS-LY, adv.

By stealth; without authority; fraudulently.

SUR'RO-GATE, n. [L. surrogatus, surrogo, subrogo; sub and rogo, to propose. Rogo, to ask or propose, signifies primarily to reach, put or thrust forward; and subrogo is to put or set in the place of another.]

In a general sense, a deputy; delegate; substitute; particularly, the deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor. In some of the United States, the judge of probate, of wills and testaments.

SUR'RO-GATE, v.t.

To put in the place of another. [Little used.]

SUR-RO-GA'TION, n.

The act or substituting one person in the place of another. [Little used.]

SUR-ROUND', v.t. [sur and round, Fr. rond.]

1. To encompass; to environ; to inclose on all sides; as, to surround a city. They surrounded a body of the enemy.
2. To lie or be on all sides of; as, a wall or ditch surrounds the city.

SUR-ROUND'ED, pp.

Encompassed; inclosed; beset.