Obs. Also 9 (Hist.) sursize. [a. AF. sursise (cf. med.L. sursisa, supersisa) negligence, delay, ? hence, penalty for this, vbl. sb. fem. f. surseoir:—L. supersedēre to SUPERSEDE.] A penalty formerly exacted at Dover for failure to pay the castle-guard rent.
1540. Act 32 Hen. VIII., c. 48 § 1. Greate penalities and forfaictures comonlye callid in the said Castell of Dovorr Sursises.
1570–6. Lambarde, Peramb. Kent (1826), 141.
1876. Encycl. Brit., V. 198/2.
