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surpriser|səˈpraɪzər|
[f. surprise v. + -er1.]
One who or that which surprises; † a capturer.
1584Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 659 Taikeris and surprisers of the said burgh and castell. 1643Baker Chron., Eliz. 56 The Surprizers of the King. 1648E. Symmons Vind. Chas. I 15 These Papers might have been Evidences of Truth and of Loyalty too had the Surprizers of them been guilty of these Vertues. 1665Earl of Sandwich in Pepys' Diary, etc. (1870) 596 Prizes taken on the 3rd and 4th of September:—Surprizers,..Assurance, Anthelope, Adventure, Mary. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. xi. §120 The surprisers were to be ready upon such a part of the Wall. 1712Addison Spect. No. 538 ⁋3 The Subject of Antipathies was a proper Field wherein such false Surprizers might expatiate. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xviii. xiv. (1872) VIII. 73 Our Cavalry, cutting-in upon the disordered surprisers. 1901[see surprised 1]. |