Now rare or Obs. Also 7 (Sc.) -at; 6 (Sc.) pa. t. -ate, pa. pple. -at, -aitt, suregat, 6–7 pa. pple. -ate. [f. L. surrogāt-, pa. ppl. stem of surrogāre, assimilated f. subrogāre to SUBROGATE.]
1. trans. To appoint as a successor, substitute or deputy: = SUBROGATE v. 1.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, II. iv. (S.T.S.), I. 140. Þai belevit þat he wald vsurpe þe crown, becaus he surrogate nocht haistelie ane new consul in þe place of brutus. Ibid., 142. He sett ane counsell to surrogate ane colleig in þe place of brutus. Ibid., III. vii. I. 270. The consull denyit to do ony thing concernyng þe said law, quhil he had surrogate ane colleig in þe place of Valerius þat was deceissit.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xxiv. § 10. The Oath of Supremacie … was offered vnto them, the refusers whereof were … depriued, and others surrogated that were more loyally affected.
1637. Gillespie, Engl. Pop. Cerem., II. i. 7. Those conforming Ministers, who are surrogate in their stead.
1662. H. More, Philos. Writ., Pref. Gen. (1712), 25. This earthly Adam failing in his office, the Heavenly was surrogated in his room.
1679. C. Nesse, Antichrist, 162. The Pope of Rome … did surrogate the kings of France.
1705. Hickeringill, Priest-cr., I. (1721), 62. Solomon is surrogated by God, in his stead, to the holy Work.
1853. Ld. Campbell, in Ellis & Blackburn, Rep., I. 614. Chancellor … with power of surrogating a fit person for his substitute with the Bishop’s approbation.
b. To substitute in respect of a right or claim: = SUBROGATE v. 3.
1536. Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), II. 451. William, Erle of Douglas,… clamit the croun, be richt of Edward Ballioll and the Cumin; saying he wes surrogat to baith thair richtis.
1652. Z. Boyd, in Zion’s Flowers (1855), App. 24/2. Quhome I … surrogat substitute and imputte in my full richt tytill and place of the samyne.
1710. in Nairne Peerage Evid. (1874), 153. We … surrogate & substitute the said master James Nairne … in our full right and place therof pro tanto.
2. To put instead of another; to substitute: = SUBROGATE v. 2.
1586. Ferne, Blaz. Gentrie, 302. Least that strange and base stocks should presume to be surrogated in the place … of the noble and free borne.
1596. Bacon, Max. Com. Law, xix. (1630), 69. This act … was repealed, and a new law surrogate in place thereof.
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., Stat. Robt. I., 34. And the tyme of the birth, three lichts or candels salbe in the house, because darknesse is meet and convenient to surrogat ane false birth, as gif it were the trew birth.
a. 1638. Mede, Wks. (1672), 750. That the Jews should be rejected, and the Gentiles surrogated in their stead.
1654. Vilvain, Theorem. Theol., viii. 209. The Earth … shal be renewed or a new surrogated.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 322. How punctually they have surrogated the Blessed Virgin into the place of Venus.
1681. Hickeringill, Vind. Naked Truth, II. 14. How do they wrest the holy Scriptures to surrogate their preposterous Hierarchy.
a. 1768. Erskine, Inst. Law Scot., III. vvi. § 7. That subject which is surrogated in the place of the first.
1827. Scott, Napoleon, lxxxiii. They had a title to the price which had been surrogated in place of the property.
3. intr. To act for another as a surrogate or substitute; fig. to minister to. Obs. rare.
1681. Hickeringill, Black Non-Conf., iii. Wks. 1716, II. 44. When decrepit old Age cannot surrogate to their Lust. Ibid. (1681), Vind. Naked Truth, II. 1. Whose Pens were glad to Surrogate to their Pencels, and write—This is a Cock, and This a Bull.
Hence Surrogated ppl. a., Surrogating vbl. sb.
a. 1679. T. Goodwin, Election, III. iii. Wks. 1683, II. 138. Deut. 9. 14. I will make of thee a Nation greater and mightier than they: And to be in their room a Surrogated People to him, as they by Election had been.
1679. C. Nesse, Antichrist, 163. In usurping his authority of surrogating and deputing of Caesars.
