† superˈvive, v. Obs.
[ad. late L. supervīvĕre, f. super- super- 7 + vīvĕre to live. Cf. F. survivre to survive.]
To live beyond or after another person, an event, etc.: = survive. a. intr.
| a 1552 Leland Itin. (1768) II. 33 William was slayn, and Alice supervivid. 1597 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 304/1 The last of the four persones foirsaidis supervivand. 1648 Herrick Hesper. (title of poem) Great Spirits supervive. 1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. Bentivoglio's Wars Flanders 10 Assuring them that they shall always see my father supervive in me, in favouring and protecting them. 1671 Barrow Serm. Ps. cxii. 9 Wks. 1687 I. 460 He [sc. the bountiful man] supervives in the heart of the afflicted, which still..rejoyces in the ease which he procured him. |
b. trans. To outlive.
| 1586 Sandys in J. J. Cartwright Chapt. Hist. Yorks. (1872) 137 Myne eldest sonne..hathe supervived him. 1634 T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. ii. (1678) 46 Neither doth Death give an end to that hatred, but it supervives their Funeral. 1706 Clarke Let. to Mr. Dodwell (1718) 8, I beseech you, if the Soul be such..what Revolutions in Nature will it not be able to resist and supervive? |
So † superˈvivant, a survivor; † superˈvivency, survival.
| c 1555 Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 281 The strange bloody spectacle wherein the one brother was butcher to the other.., and the supervivant..beheaded not long after. 1659 T. White Middle State Souls 10 The Stoicks..acknowledged the soul's supervivency..after the decay of the body. |