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† suresby, sureby Obs.
Also suers-.
[f. sure a. + -by 2.]
An appellation for a person (and hence for a thing) that is ‘sure’ or may be depended upon.
[a1553Udall Royster D. iv. i. (Arb.) 59 Is there any man but I Sym Suresby alone, That would haue taken such an enterprise him vpon?] 1553Bradford Serm. Repent. (1574) E vj b, Remedy now know I none. What said I none?.. Yes, there is one which is suresby, as they say, to serue, if any thyng wyl serue. 1588Marprel. Epist. 4, I am olde suersbie at the proofe of such matters. 1588J. Harvey Disc. Probl. 98 Sundry like ancient surebies and old sokers. 1598R. Bernard tr. Terence, Andria iv. v, You are the same man that you were: old suresbie [ed. 1607 surebie]: no flinsher. 1602F. Herring Anat. 14 He flieth to those old Suresbies and Trudge blew-coats, Antimony and Mercury Precipitate. 1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. xii. 63 This was the traynd sent, he knew his dogges were old suers-by at this. 1634Withals' Dict. 562 Lyaius sive Heracleus lapis, hee is old suresby. 1643Trapp Comm. Gen. xxix. 13 Look rather unto the Lord,..he is the onely Suresby, as they say; and will never fail us.
attrib.1612T. James Corrupt. Scripture ii. 13 All the printed and written copies haue forsaken him, saue only the old suresby Cambron copie. 1675J. Smith Chr. Relig. Appeal ii. 83 Dealing with every man at his own suresby-weapon. |