ppl. a. Obs. rare. Aphetic f. ASSURED. (Cf. SURE v.)

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a. 1542.  Wyatt, Penit. Ps. cxliii. Prol. iv. Then will I crave with sured confidence.

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1549.  MSS. Dk. Rutland (Hist. MSS. Comm.), IV. 355. To a Ducheman, for that my Lord causyd him to gyve a suryd Scotyshman his nagge agayne, v s.

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1567.  Painter, Pal. Pleas., II. ad fin. A plot founded on sured ground.

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a. 1586.  Sidney, Arcadia, IV. (1622), 443. For euer lamed of our sured might.

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  Hence † Suredly adv., assuredly.

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1630.  Lennard, trans. Charron’s Wisd., II. ii. § 10. 263. He that walks moderately … directeth his businesse … more suredly and cheerefully.

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