Obs. Forms: 6 sursesance, 7 surcesance, surceasance. [f. SURCEASE v., after SURSEANCE.] = SURSEANCE.
1585. Holinshed, Chron., II. Hist. Scot., 323/2. Being at the same time a sursesance made on both sides,… the Scots ceassed not to make sundre inuasions into our realme.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. vii. § 39. He was … perswaded … not to refuse Saladines offers for a surceasance from hostilitie.
a. 1637. Spottiswood, Hist. Ch. Scot., V. (1677), 254. She began to treat with both parties for a surceasance of Arms.
