rare. Also 5 surreccioun, -ecion, 6 -eccyon, -eccion, -exyon. [ad. late L. surrectio, -ōnem, n. of action f. surrect-, surgĕre to rise. Cf. OF. surrection.]

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  † 1.  A rising in rebellion, insurrection. Obs.

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c. 1418.  Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 247. To shape sodeyn surreccioun Agaynst oure liege lord kynge.

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1516.  in Arnolde, Chron. (1811), p. l. Ye surrexyon of vacabondis, and prentysys … agaynst straungers.

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1528.  Ld. Sandys, Let. Wolsey, 9 March (Publ. Rec. Off.). If there be eny such surreccion … I shall doo the best may lye in me to pacifie theym.

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  2.  Rising (in general). Obs. exc. as nonce-wd. after resurrection.

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1509.  Hawes, Past. Pleas. (Percy Soc.), 191. The mornyng was past, But Afrycus Auster made surreccion, Blowyng his bellowes.

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1599.  A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 55/2. Sepulte the same … agaynste the surrection of the Sunne.

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1845.  Brownson, Wks., V. 342. It would not be a re-surrection, but a simple surrection.

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