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† surbated, 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.
c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xii, If þe soles of hir feete be surebated. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 132 If the bullockes feete be neare worne, and surbated, washe them in Oxe pysse warmed. 1601Holland Pliny xi. xxxvii, When they see their Oxe hoofes surbatted and worne too neere the quick with overmuch travell. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 689 Those members that are surboted or riuen of their skin. 1617R. Fenton Treat. Ch. Rome 142 The feet of our blessed Sauiour: those surbated feet which tred vpon the earth naked and miserable. a1700Evelyn Diary 7 Sept. 1666, My haire was almost sing'd, and my feete unsufferably surbated. 1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Surbating, There is nothing better for surbated feet than tar melted into the foot. 1816Sporting 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.
a1450Fysshynge 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]. 1576Turberv. Venerie 123 When you are ouertaken with the night, or that your houndes are surbated and wearie. 1579Langham 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. 1612tr. Benvenuto's Passenger A vij, A surbated and weary Passenger. 1639T. de Grey Compl. Horsem. 111 To be applyed to the feet..when the horse is..surbated. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. viii. §127 They begun their march again; which they continued all that Night;..they could not but be extremely weary, and surbated. 1670Evelyn 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. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1756) I. 348 He will (if used upon hard Roads) become surbated or beaten of his Feet in a very short Time. 1887F. 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.
1592in Lyly's Wks. (1902) I. 478 Vertue tying wings to the thoughts of virgins, swiftnes becommeth surbated. 1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. 291 Doe you not think my sighes must needes be surbated, in going every day foure hundred leagues? 1661Webster Cure for Cuckold ii. iv, We are all..at a stand,..the music ceas'd, and dancing surbated. |