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† sured, ppl. a. Obs. rare.
Aphetic f. assured. (Cf. sure v.)
a1542Wyatt Penit. Ps. cxliii. Prol. iv, Then will I crave with sured confidence. 1549MSS. Dk. Rutland (Hist. MSS. Comm.) IV. 355 To a Ducheman, for that my Lord causyd him to gyve a suryd Scotyshman his nagge agayne, v s. 1567Painter Pal. Pleas. II. ad fin., A plot founded on sured ground. a1586Sidney Arcadia iv. (1622) 443 For euer lamed of our sured might.
Hence † suredly adv., assuredly.
1630S. Lennard tr. Charron's Wisd. ii. ii. §10. 263 He that walks moderately..directeth his businesse..more suredly and cheerefully. |