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 Monm., trans. 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, Lett. 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 † Supervivant, a survivor; † Supervivency, 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.
