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Surcease vs Supersedere - What's the difference?

surcease | supersedere |

As nouns the difference between surcease and supersedere

is that surcease is cessation; stop; end while supersedere is (legal) a creditor's voluntary surcease of personal execution in behalf of a debtor.

As a verb surcease

is to come to an end; to desist.

surcease

English

Noun

(-)
  • cessation; stop; end
  • * Longfellow
    • Not desire, but its surcease .
  • * Francis Bacon
    • It is time that there were an end and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writing.
  • * 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 217:
    • For the individual who wishes to live in his time, to be a part of the future, the super-industrial revolution offers no surcease from change.
  • * 1845 , Edgar Allan Poe, "(The Raven)"
    • Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
    And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
    Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrow
    From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore —
    For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore —
    Nameless here for evermore.

    Verb

  • To come to an end; to desist.
  • To bring to an end.
  • * Spenser
    • The waves their range surceast .
  • * Dryden
    • The nations, overawed, surceased the fight.

    supersedere

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal) A creditor's voluntary surcease of personal execution in behalf of a debtor.
  • * 1816 , Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary , Oxford University Press, 2002, p.406:
    • Mr Sweepclean, secede paulisper , or, in your own language, grant us a supersedere of diligence for five minutes.
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