Surpriser

[f. SURPRISE v. + -ER¹.] One who or that which surprises; † a capturer.

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1584. Reg. Privy Council Scot., III. 659. Taikeris and surprisers of the said burgh and castell.

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1643. Baker, Chron., Eliz., 56. The Surprizers of the King.

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1648. Symmons, Vind. Chas. I., 15. These Papers might have been Evidences of Truth and of Loyalty too had the Surprizers of them been guilty of these Vertues.

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1665. Earl of Sandwich, in Pepys’ Diary, etc. (1870), 596. Prizes taken on the 3^rd and 4^th of September:—Surprizers,… Assurance, Anthelope, Adventure, Mary.

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a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., XI. § 120. The surprisers were to be ready upon such a part of the Wall.

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1712. Addison, Spect., No. 538, ¶ 3. The Subject of Antipathies was a proper Field wherein such false Surprizers might expatiate.

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1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XVIII. xiv. (1872), VIII. 73. Our Cavalry, cutting-in upon the disordered surprisers.

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1901. [see SURPRISED 1].

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