A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580

by A. L. Mayhew; Walter W. Skeat

[ Surety], sb. surety; seurtee, C3, S2; seurte, C; souerte, S3.—AF. seürte; Lat. securitatem.

[ Surfait], sb. surfeit, excess, P; surfet, PP.—AF. surfait, surfet, outrage, annoyance.

[ Surplys], sb. surplice, C3.—OF. surplis; Late Lat. superpelliceum.

[ Surquidry], sb. pride, arrogance, WA; surquedry, ND, Spenser 2; surquidrie, CM; succudry, B.—OF. surcuiderie, from surcuider; Lat. super + cogitare, to think.

[ Surrye], sb. Syria, S2.

[ Surryen], adj. Syrian, S2.

[ Suspect], sb. suspicion, C2, HD.—Late Lat. suspectus, suspicion (Ducange).

[ Suspect], adj. open to suspicion, C2.—Lat. suspectus, pp. of suspicere, to suspect.

[ Sustene], v. to sustain, C2; susteene, C3; susteyne, PP; sustened, pp., C2; i-susteined, S2; i-sousteined, S2.—AF. sustener, OF. sostenir; Lat. sustinēre.

[ Suster], sb. sister, S, C2, C3, PP; soster, S2; sustre, P; sustren, pl., S, P; sostren, S2; zostren, S2; sistren, C; sistris, W.—AS. swuster, sweostor; cp. Goth. swistar (Icel. systir), cognate with Lat. soror (for *sosor), Skt. svasr. On the Teutonic intrusive t see Douse, p. 61.