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† ˈsurquidry, ˈsurquedry 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.)
a1225Ancr. R. 56 Me surqiderie [v.rr. Me surqide sire, Me sire], ne iherest tu þet Dauid [etc.]. c1315Shoreham iv. 282 Ho yst þat neuer nas yblent Wyþ non surquydery? 13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 309 Þat is a poynt o sorquydryȝe, þat vche god mon may euel byseme. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxviii. (Margaret) 46 Scho had symply hyre fud & clath, to cleth hyre honestly, for-out pryd and surcudry. a1400Morte Arth. 3399 Thow has schedde myche blode, and schalkes distroyede, Sakeles, in cirquytrie. 1412–20Lydg. 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. 1576Gascoigne Steele Gl. (Arb.) 54 Such Surcuydry, such weening ouer well. 1591Spenser World's Vanitie 105 He..Was puffed vp with passing surquedrie, And shortly gan all other beasts to scorne. 1602Carew Cornwall 58 He held Aristotle superiour to Moses and Christ, and yet but equall to himselfe. But this extreame Surquedry forfeyted his wittes. 1657Earl of Monmouth tr. Paruta's Pol. Disc. 195 The War was..undertaken with great surquedrie, and with great hopes of victory and glory. 1713Croxall Orig. Canto Spencer xxxix. (1714) 26 She past in haughty Surquedry, Like some great Queen thus richly garnished. 1793I. Williams Mem. Warren Hastings 47 We cannot become illustrious by fury or surquedry. 1825Scott Betrothed xviii, A judgment specially calculated to abate and bend that spirit of surquedry.
fig.1642H. 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.
1602Marston 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. 1647Ward Simple Cobler (1843) 31 Fashions..are the surquedryes of pride.
c. transf.: cf. pride n.1 5.
1607T. Walkington Optic Glass 32 That heavenly worke of works, natures surquedry and pride.
¶2. Misused for: Excess (esp. of indulgence), surfeit.
1594Selimus in Greene's Wks. (Grosart) XIV. 220, I haue..surfeted with pleasures surquidrie. 1598Pilgr. Parnass. iv. 486 Theile..make you melte in Venus' surque[d]rie. 1598Marston Sat. iv. 49 Poems (1879) 49 In strength of lust and Venus surquedry. 1612Pasquil's Night-cap (1877) 2147 Diseases hidden, Which doe proceed from lust and surquedrie. 1623Cockeram ii, The Ouerplusse, Surquedrie, Surplusage. 1647Trapp Comm. Eph. v. 18 This is called by Luther, Crapula sacra, a spirituall surquedry or surfet. 1656Heylin Extraneus Vapulans 315 Their stomacks not well cleared from the Surquedries of that Mighty Feast. |