Obs. Forms: 3–4 surquiderie, 4–7 surquidrie, -quedrie, (8–9 arch.) surquedry, 5–6 surquidry, (4 so(u)rquydrye, -yȝe, surquidre, 4–5 -drye; 4 -quydrie, -dery, 5 -dry(e, 5–6 -quedrye, 7 -dree); 4 -quy-, 5 -qui-, 7 -quetry (5 -quitery); 4 -cudry, 6 -cuydry(e, 6–7 -cuidrie; 4 cirquytrie, 5 -cudrie. See also SUCCUDRY. [a. OF. s(o)urcuiderie, f. s(o)urcuidier: see SURQUIDANT and -ERY.]
1. Arrogance, haughty pride, presumption. (In first quot. app. personified.)
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 56. Me surqlderie [v.rr. Me surqlde sire, Me sire], ne iherest tu þet Dauid [etc.].
c. 1315. Shoreham, IV. 282. Ho yst þat neuer nas yblent Wyþ non surquydery?
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., A. 399. Þat is a poynt o sorquydryȝe, þat vche god mon may euel byseme.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxviii. (Margaret), 46. Scho had symply hyre fud & clath, to cleth hyre honestly, for-out pryd and surcudry.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 3399. Thow has schedde myche blode, and schalkes distroyede, Sakeles, in cirquytrie.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, I. 452 (MS. Digby 230), lf. 31 b/2. Alle þo … That … wolde … rebelle in any maner weye Of surquidrie or pride to werreye.
1576. Gascoigne, Steele Gl. (Arb.), 54. Such Surcuydry, such weening ouer well.
1591. Spenser, World’s Vanitie, 105. He … Was puffed vp with passing surquedrie, And shortly gan all other beasts to scorne.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 58. He held Aristotle superiour to Moses and Christ, and yet but equall to himselfe. But this extreame Surquedry forfeyted his wittes.
1657. Earl Monm., trans. Paruta’s Pol. Disc., 195. The War was … undertaken with great surquedrie, and with great hopes of victory and glory.
1793. Croxall, Orig. Canto Spencer, xxxix. (1714), 26. She past in haughty Surquedry, Like some great Queen thus richly garnished.
1793. I. Williams, Mem. Warren Hastings, 47. We cannot become illustrious by fury or surquedry.
1815. Scott, Betrothed, xviii. A judgment specially calculated to abate and bend that spirit of surquedry.
fig. 1642. H. More, Song of Soul, I. II. lxi. To an inward sucking whirlpools close They change this swelling torrents surquedry.
b. with a and pl. A piece of arrogance.
1602. Marston, Ant. & Mel., III. Wks. 1856, I. 34. O, had it eyes, and eares, and tongues, it might See sport, heare speach of most strange surquedries.
1609. [Bp. W. Barlow], Answ. Nameless Cath., 341. Citing it for a proofe, and not confuting it for a surquedrie.
1647. Ward, Simple Cobler (1843), 31. Fashions … are the surquedryes of pride.
c. transf.: cf. PRIDE sb.1 5.
1607. Walkington, Optic Glass, 32. That heavenly worke of works, natures surquedry and pride.
¶ 2. Misused for: Excess (esp. of indulgence), surfeit.
1594. Selimus, in Greene’s Wks. (Grosart), XIV. 220. I haue … surfeted with pleasures surquidrie.
1598. Pilgr. Parnass., IV. 486. Theile … make you melte in Venus’ surque[d]rie.
1598. Marston, Sat., IV. 49. Poems (1879), 49. In strength of lust and Venus surquedry.
1612. Pasquil’s Night-Cap (1877), 2147. Diseases hidden, Which doe proceed from lust and surquedrie.
1623. Cockeram, II. The Ouerplusse, Surquedrie, Surplusage.
1647. Trapp, Comm. Eph. v. 18. This is called by Luther, Crapula sacra, a spirituall surquedry or surfet.
1656. Heylin, Extraneus Vapulans, 315. Their stomacks not well cleared from the Surquedries of that Mighty Feast.
