Obs. [a. OF. sourdre: see SOURD v.] intr. To arise or spring.
14[?]. Chaucer’s Pars. T., ¶ 448 (Hengwrt MS.). The especes that sourdren of pride, soothely whan they sourdren of malice [etc.].
1474. Caxton, Chesse, II. iv. (1833), 57. For as moche as … rebellion … might sourdre and aryse in oon partye or other. Ibid. (c. 1477), Jason, 111 b. How wele that shold sourdre therof to me a new sorowe.
c. 1500. Melusine, 50. The fontayne also whiche sourdred & sprang ther haboundauntly.
