Sc. Obs. Also 6 sussie. [a. OF. soussier:—L. sollicitāre to rouse, excite, SOLICIT.]
1. intr. To care, trouble.
c. 1550. Rolland, Crt. Venus, II. 428. Sussie not, for thow will get reskew.
1570. Satir. Poems Reform., xvi. 76. He susseis not thre strais Quha suld be rewlar.
a. 1609. Alex. Hume, Ep. G. Moncrieff, 318. I sussie not how viuely they be tuitched.
b. With negative and const. inf.: Not to refuse to do something.
1567. Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.), 171. Thou susseit nocht to suffer deid.
1570. Satir. Poems Reform., xiii. 38. Cain aganis his brother did Rebell, And susseit not to sched his saikles blude.
1580–90. J. Stewart, Poems (S.T.S.), II. 113. The fengȝeit freind … susseis not to leif his freind in smart.
2. trans. To care for, regard.
c. 1560. A. Scott, Poems (S.T.S.), xxx. 22. Thay sussy not thair God abufe.
