Also 6 -our. [f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who or that which surmounts; † one who or that which excels (obs.); an overcomer, vanquisher.
c. 1500. Three Kings’ Sons, 177. A man that hight Le Surnome, which was the floure and surmountour of alle othir.
1589. Puttenham, Engl. Poesie, III. xxv. (Arb.), 309. Arte is not only an aide … to nature in all her actions, but … in some sort a surmounter of her skill.
a. 1610. Healey, Epictetus (1636), 2. Surmounters of all lets and impediments.
