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单词 sursise
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sursisen.

Forms: Also 1800s (Historical) sursize.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman sursise (compare medieval Latin sursisa , supersisa ) negligence, delay, ? hence, penalty for this, verbal noun feminine < surseoir < Latin supersedēre to supersede v.
Obsolete.
A penalty formerly exacted at Dover for failure to pay the castle-guard rent.
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society > authority > punishment > fine > [noun] > for failure to pay castle-guard rent
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1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 48 §1 Greate penalities and forfaictures comonlye callid in the said Castell of Dovorr Sursises.
1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 156 Whereas before time they [sc. Castlewardes] were paiable at..[Douer] Castle,..from thence foorth they should be paied in the Escheaquer at Westminster, vpon forfaiture of the double rent once only, without any further forfaitures, or Sursises, as they were woont to be called.
1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 198/2.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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