▪ I. surˈviver1 Now rare or Obs.
[f. prec. + -er1.]
= survivor.
| 1602 Shakes. Ham. i. ii. 90 The Suruiuer bound In filiall Obligation..To do obsequious Sorrow. 1634 T. Johnson Parey's Wks. ii. 62 There is the like mutuall bond of love betweene Turtles, for if one of them die, the surviver never solicites Hymen more. 1726 in Nairne Peerage Evidence (1874) 35 Nor shall any part of the deceasers patrimonies accress to the survivers. 1825 J. Neal Bro. Jonathan xxxii. III. 201 The surviver is George. |
Hence † surˈvivership = survivorship; † surˈvivery, survivors collectively.
| 1638 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 271 Seleuchus Callynicus sonne to Antiochus Theos by survivership (after long stormes) seeming to steare in that unruly Ocean. 1680 Rich Ep. Seven Ch. 90 When the Irish had murdered two hundred thousand, they little thought that they had but excited the Survivery to a terrible Revenge. |
▪ II. † surˈviver2 Obs.
In 6 -oure, 6–7 -or.
[f. survive + -er4. Cf. superviver2.]
= survivorship.
| 1544 tr. Littleton's Tenures iii. iii. 63 b, They shall haue this by discent & nat by the suruyuour as ioyntenauntes haue. 1583 in East Anglian Apr. (1910) 249 By survivor sole seysed of and in the said Mannor. 1602 Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 381 Iohn of Gaunt, by birth the fourth, by suruiuor the second Sonne of Edward the third. |