surpriser
(səˈpraɪzər)
[f. surprise v. + -er1.]
One who or that which surprises; † a capturer.
| 1584 Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 659 Taikeris and surprisers of the said burgh and castell. 1643 Baker Chron., Eliz. 56 The Surprizers of the King. 1648 E. 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. 1665 Earl of Sandwich in Pepys' Diary, etc. (1870) 596 Prizes taken on the 3rd and 4{supt}{suph} of September:—Surprizers,..Assurance, Anthelope, Adventure, Mary. a 1674 Clarendon Hist. Reb. xi. §120 The surprisers were to be ready upon such a part of the Wall. 1712 Addison Spect. No. 538 ¶3 The Subject of Antipathies was a proper Field wherein such false Surprizers might expatiate. 1865 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xviii. xiv. (1872) VIII. 73 Our Cavalry, cutting-in upon the disordered surprisers. 1901 [see surprised 1]. |