surcease : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: surcease	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for surcease
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
surcease n a stopping; "a cessation of the thunder" [syn: cessation, surcease]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Surcease \Surcease"\, 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. [bd]Not desire, but its surcease.[b8] --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.] [bd]The waves . . . their range surceast.[b8] --Spenser. The nations, overawed, surceased the fight. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Surcease \Sur*cease"\, v. i. To cease. [Obs.]