Obs. Also 6 socate, -atts, suckat, succot, 6, 8 succat. Obscure variant of SUCCADE. Also fig. (Cf. med.L. succātum (15th c.) ‘safftgetranck,’ 16th cent. Du. sucate = sukade.)

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1481–90.  Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.), 506. Item … for caryeng of spyces orenges and succate vj.s. viij.d.

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1536.  Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., VI. 287. Tua barrellis and ane halff of succatis.

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1562.  Turner, Herbal, II. 24 b. Som vse to make succat wyth hony or sugar of the yonge nuttes [of the Walnut tree].

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1562.  Bullein, Bulwarke, Bk. Simples (1579), 44 b. The rootes must be tenderly sodden, and preserued in Succate.

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1593.  G. Harvey, Pierce’s Super., 136. I haue giuen you a tast of his Suger-loafe, that weeneth … Cheekes succats,… and Mores iunkets nothing comparable to his pap.

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1715.  D’Anois, Wks., 503 b. Succats [printed Succals] and Sugar-Plumbs were devour’d by Cart-loads.

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  Comb.  1562.  Turner, Herbal, II. 22. The succot makers.

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