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surprisal Now rare or Obs.|səˈpraɪzəl|
Also 6 -ysall, 6–7 -isall, 7 -izall, 7–8 -izal.
[f. surprise v. + -al1.]
The act of surprising or state of being surprised; something that surprises.
1. = surprise n. 1.
1591Spenser Virg. Gnat 536 Laërtes sonne..boasts his good euent In working of Strymonian Rhæsus fall, And efte in Dolons subtile surprysall. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. xvii. §4. 289 The surprizal of these three Cities, Glocester, Bathe, and Cirencester. 1620in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1906) 222 Their to land our masters monies and goods, for whose surprizall the Portingalls fought. 1627W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1629) 111 The siege and surprisall of Ierusalem by Titus and Vespatian. 1634Milton Comus 618 How to secure the Lady from surprisal. 1648Eikon Bas. xxvi. 223 (heading) The Armies Surprisall of the King at Holmeby. 1757Hume Hist. Gt. Brit. II. ii. 192 (an. 1668) An insurrection was projected, together with a surprizal of the castle of Dublin. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1859) 213 Surrounded by hostile tribes, whose mode of warfare is by ambush and surprisal. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xviii. iii. (1872) VII. 144 The Prussians..had nearly got into the place by surprisal.
2. = surprise n. 2; occas. sudden lapse (into).
1613Purchas Pilgrimage ix. xiv. 745 One..who by the Sunnes surprisall, was turned into a Nightingale. a1631Donne Serm., Gen. iii. 24 (1649) II. 442 Though the belly, the bowels of sin, in sudden surprisals, and ebullitions..of our concupiscencies, be subject to him [sc. the devil]. a1639[see sudden n. 2]. 1647Sprigge Anglia Rediv. ii. ii. (1854) 76 A sudden surprisal of the tide called the Eager, where he very narrowly escaped drowning. 1667Milton P.L. v. 245 Least wilfully transgressing he pretend Surprisal, unadmonisht, unforewarnd. 1675Owen Indwelling Sin iii. (1732) 27 His [sc. David's] great surprizal into Sin was after..manifold Experiences of God. 1683Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly (1709) 125 They will divert them with sport and mirth, lest they should..be damped with the surprizal of sober thoughts.
3. = surprise n. 3.
1660Trial Regic. 18, I do desire some time to consider of it: for it is a great Surprisal. 1679J. Goodman Penit. Pard. iii. vi. (1713) 388 It can be no surprisal to Almighty God who foreknows all things from the beginning. 1799Mrs. J. West Tale of Times I. 89 My lady stopped his exordium..by one of those sweet surprisals in which..she abounded. 1843Tait's Mag. X. 188 It is usually a rather melancholy surprisal.
†4. = surprise n. 4. Obs.
1652Loveday tr. Calprenede's Cassandra ii. 96 In a rapture of joy, surprisall, and astonishment. 1674in Phenix (1721) I. 297 It is easy to imagine how great the surprizal of our Embassador was, when they receiv'd this Answer. a1814Witness ii. iii. in New Brit. Theatre I. 22 In the sad surprisal to behold, A thing so miserable human still. |