pa. pple. and ppl. a. Obs. or dial. Also 5 surebated, 5–7 surbatted, 6–8 -baited, 7 erron. -boted. [f. OF. surbatu (pa. pple. of surbatre, f. sur- exceedingly = SUPER- 9 b + batre to beat) + -ED. OF. surbatu is not recorded in the sense of the Eng. word, the F. term being solbatu (1664 in Hatz.-Darm.), for which see SOLE-BAITING; but Cotgrave (1611), has surbatture ‘surbating’ (as well as soubattue, soubatture); cf. also obs. It. sobattere, sobattuto ‘surbated,’ sobattitura ‘surbating.’] a. Of the hoofs or feet: Bruised or sore with much walking.
c. 1410. Master of Game (MS. Digby 182), xii. If þe soles of hir feete be surebated.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb. (1586), 132. If the bullockes feete be neare worne, and surbated, washe them in Oxe pysse warmed.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XI. xxxvii. When they see their Oxe hoofes surbatted and worne too neere the quick with overmuch travell.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 689. Those members that are surboted or riuen of their skin.
1617. R. Fenton, Treat. Ch. Rome, 142. The feet of our blessed Sauiour: those surbated feet which tred vpon the earth naked and miserable.
a. 1700. Evelyn, Diary, 7 Sept. 1666. My haire was almost sing’d, and my feete unsufferably surbated.
1766. Compl. Farmer, s.v. Surbating, There is nothing better for surbated feet than tar melted into the foot.
1816. Sporting Mag., XLVII. 61. We have seen the hoofs of a horse perfectly surbated, from long standing upon the hard … stones.
b. Of animals or persons: Foot-foundered, foot-sore; weary with excessive travelling on foot.
a. 1450. Fysshynge w. Angle (1883), 2. The hunter … cummet home … reyn beton seyr prykud with thornes and hys clothes torne … sum of hys howndes lost som surbatted [ed. 1496 surbat].
1576. Turberv., Venerie, 123. When you are ouertaken with the night, or that your houndes are surbated and wearie.
1579. Langham, Gard. Health (1633), 10. The leaues … are good to be put into the shooes of them that are surbated and wearie, to mitigate the heat and paine.
1612. trans. Benvenuto’s Passenger, A vij. A surbated and weary Passenger.
1639. T. de Grey, Compl. Horsem., 111. To be applyed to the feet … when the horse is … surbated.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., VIII. § 127. They begun their march again; which they continued all that Night;… they could not but be extremely weary, and surbated.
1670. Evelyn, Sylva, xix. (ed. 2), 84. The fresh Leaves [of the Alder] alone applied to the naked soal of the Foot, infinitely refresh the surbated Traveller.
1737. Bracken, Farriery Impr. (1756), I. 348. He will (if used upon hard Roads) become surbated or beaten of his Feet in a very short Time.
1887. F. T. Havergal, Heref. Gloss., s.v., As a woman said of her daughter who had walked 30 miles to see her: ‘When her came her was fine surbated.’
c. transf. and fig.
1592. in Lyly’s Wks. (1902), I. 478. Vertue tying wings to the thoughts of virgins, swiftnes becommeth surbated.
1634. W. Tirwhyt, trans. Balzac’s Lett., 291. Doe you not think my sighes must needes be surbated, in going every day foure hundred leagues?
1661. Webster, Cure for Cuckold, II. iv. We are all … at a stand,… the music ceas’d, and dancing surbated.
