ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ING2.] That survives. a. Still living after another’s death.
1593. Shaks., Lucr., 519. Thy suruiuing husband.
1660. R. Coke, Power & Subj., 144. We find the sentence of the Pope and Wilfrids restitution still opposed by the surviving Bishops in Alfreds sons reign.
1780. Mirror, No. 81, ¶ 5. After the first transports of my mother’s grief were subsided, she began to apply herself to the care of her surviving child.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xv. III. 576. The surviving members of the High Court of Justice which had sate on Charles the First.
1861. Paley, Æschylus (ed. 2), Choeph., 817, note. The dead Agamemnon and the surviving Electra.
b. Still remaining after the cessation of something else.
1593. Shaks., Lucr., 223. This dying virtue, this suruiuing shame.
1820. Shelley, Witch Atl., xxiv. If I must weep when the surviving Sun Shall smile on your decay.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. II. viii. The surviving Literature of the Period.
