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† sursise Obs.
Also 9 (Hist.) sursize.
[a. AF. sursise (cf. med.L. sursisa, supersisa) negligence, delay, ? hence, penalty for this, vbl. n. fem. f. surseoir:—L. supersedēre to supersede.]
A penalty formerly exacted at Dover for failure to pay the castle-guard rent.
1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 48 §1 Greate penalities and forfaictures comonlye callid in the said Castell of Dovorr Sursises. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 141. 1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 198/2. |