Now rare or Obs. [f. prec. + -ER1.] = SURVIVOR.
1602. Shaks., Ham., I. ii. 90. The Suruiuer bound In filiall Obligation … To do obsequious Sorrow.
1634. T. Johnson, Parey’s Wks., II. 62. There is the like mutuall bond of love betweene Turtles, for if one of them die, the surviver never solicites Hymen more.
1726. in Nairne Peerage Evidence (1874), 35. Nor shall any part of the deceasers patrimonies accress to the survivers.
1825. J. Neal, Bro. Jonathan, xxxii. III. 201. The surviver is George.
Hence † Survivership = SURVIVORSHIP; † Survivery, survivors collectively.
1638. Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (ed. 2), 271. Seleuchus Callynicus sonne to Antiochus Theos by survivership (after long stormes) seeming to steare in that unruly Ocean.
1680. Rich, Ep. Seven Ch., 90. When the Irish had murdered two hundred thousand, they little thought that they had but excited the Survivery to a terrible Revenge.
