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and, in the very close of her speech, she indirectly mentions 
it. Broome. —To keep in ; not to let out. 
Well did’st thou, Richard, to suppress thy voice; 
For had the passions of thy heart burst out, 
I fear we should have seen decypher’d there 
More rancorous spight, more furious raging broils. 
Shakspeare. 
SUPPRESSION, s. [suppression, Fr., suppressio, Lat.] 
The act of suppressing.—Not publication.'—You may de¬ 
pend upon a suppression of these verses. Pope. 
SUPPRE'SSIVE, adj. Suppressing ; overpowering ; 
concealing; keeping in.—Johnson gives us expressive and 
oppressive, but neither impressive nor suppressive, though 
proceeding as obviously from their respective sources. Se¬ 
ward. 
SUPPRE'SSOR, s. One that suppresses, crushes, or 
conceals. Sherwood. 
To SUPPURATE, v. a. [from pus puris, Lat., sup- 
purer , Fr.] To generate pus or matter. Unused. —This 
disease is generally fatal: if it suppurates the pus, it is eva¬ 
cuated into the lower belly, where it produceth putrefaction. 
Arhut knot. 
To SUPPURATE, ®. n. To grow to pus. 
SUPPURA'TION, s. [suppuration, Fr.] The ripening 
or change of the matter of a tumour into pus.—This great 
attrition must produce a great propensity to the putrescent 
alkaline condition of the fluids, and consequently to suppu¬ 
rations. Arbuthnot .—The matter suppurated. Unused. 
—The great physician of souls sometimes cannot cure with¬ 
out cutting us: sin has festered inwardly, and he must lance 
the imposthume, to let out death with the suppuration. 
South. 
SUPPURATIVE, adj. [suppuratif, Fr.] Digestive; 
generating matter. Cotgrave. 
SUPPURATIVE, s. A suppurating medicine.—If the 
inflammation be gone too far towards a suppuration, then it 
must be promoted with suppuratives, and opened by inci¬ 
sion. Wiseman. 
SUPPUTATION, s. [supputo, Lat.] Reckoning ; 
account; calculation ; computation.—From these differing 
properties of day and year arise difficulties in carrying on 
and reconciling the supputation of time in long measures. 
Holder. 
To SUPPU'TE, v. a. [from supputo, Lat.] To reckon; 
to calculate. 
SUPRA. [Latin.] In composition, signifies above, or 
before. 
SUPRALAPSA'RIAN, or Suprala'psary, adj. [supra, 
and lapsus, Latin.] Antecedent to the fall of man. 
SUPRALAPSA'RIAN, s. One who maintains the su- 
pralapsarian doctrine.— Supralapsarians, with whom the 
object of the decree is homo conditus, man created, not yet 
fallen ; and the sublapsarians, with whom it is man fallen, 
or the corrupt mass. Hammond. 
SUPRAMU'NDANE, adj. Above the world.—He that 
was in the form of God, clothed with all the majesty and 
glory of the supramundane life, yet emptied himself of all 
this unspeakable felicity, and took upon him the form of a 
servant. Hally well. 
SUPRAVU'LGAR, adj. Above the vulgar.—-None of 
these motives can prevail with a man to furnish himself with 
supravu/gar and noble qualities. Collier. 
SUPRE'MACY, s. Highest place; highest authority; 
state of being supreme.-—No appeal may be made unto any 
one of higher power, in as much as the order of discipline 
admitteth no standing inequality of courts, no spiritual judge 
to have any ordinary superior on earth, but as many 
supremacies as there are parishes and several congregations. 
Hooker. 
As we under heav’n are supreme head, 
So, under him, that great supremacy. 
Where we do reign, we will alone uphold. Shakspeare. 
SUPREME, adj. [supremus, Lat.] Highest in dignity; 
highest in authority. It may be observed, that superiour is 
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used often of local elevation, but supreme only of intellec¬ 
tual or political. 
The god of soldiers, 
With the consent of supreme Jove, inform 
Thy thoughts with nobleness. Shakspeare. 
Highest; most excellent. 
No single virtue we could most commend, 
Whether the wife, the mother, or the friend; 
For she was all in that supreme degree. 
That as no one prevail’d, so all was she. Dry den. 
SUPRE'MELY, adv. In the highest degree. 
The starving chemist in his golden views 
Supremely blest, the poet in his muse. Pope. 
SUR. [sur, Fr.] In composition, means upon or over 
and above. 
SUR, a small river in the north of Switzerland, in the 
canton of Lucerne, which issues from the Lake of Sur, and 
falls into the Rhine below Arau. 
SUR, or Sour. See Tyre. 
SURA, a village of Diarbekir, in Asiatic Turkey, on the 
Euphrates. 
SURA, a village of Irak Arabi, on the Euphrates; 160 
miles south of Bagdad. 
SURACA, a small town of the island of Samos; 4 miles 
south-west of Cara. 
SURADDI'TION, s. Something added to the name. 
He serv’d with glory and admir’d success 
So gain'd the suraddition, Leonatus. Shakspeare. 
SURADSJE, a village of Yemen, in Arabia; 16 miles 
east-south-east of Doran. 
SURAJEGIIUR, a town of Hindostan, province of Ba- 
har, district of Monghier. It is situated on the south bank 
of the river Ganges, and formerly possessed a stone fort. 
Lat. 25. 14. N. long. 86. 15. E. 
SURAJEPORE, a town of Hindostan, province of Alla¬ 
habad. It is pleasantly situated on the western bank of the 
river Ganges, and is adorned with many Hindoo temples, 
and steps leading down to the river for the convenience of 
bathing. Lat. 26. 10. N. long. 80. 37. E.—Suraje being 
the name of the sun, which is one of the innumerable Hindoo 
deities, there are many towns so dedicated to, or called after 
him, in India. 
SU'RAL, adj. [from sura, Lat.] Being in the calf of 
the leg.—He was wounded in the inside of the calf of his 
leg, into the sural artery. Wiseman. 
SURAMACA, a river of Dutch Guiana, which runs into 
the Atlantic, near the settlement of Cupename. 
SURAMI, a village and fortress of Georgia, in the pro¬ 
vince of Cartuel; 24 miles west-south-west of Gori. 
SURAN, a village of Korassan, in Persia; 45 miles 
north of Meru. 
SU'RANCE, s. Warrant; security; assurance. 
Give some surance that thou art revenge; 
Stab them, tear them on thy chariot wheels. Shakspeare. 
SURANY, Nagy, a small town in the north-west of 
Hungary, on the river Neutra; 20 miles north of Comorn. 
SURASH, a market town of the west of European Russia, 
in the government of Yitepsk, on the Dwina, with only 700 
inhabitants; 24 miles east-north-east of Vitepsk, 
SURAT, a large and populous city of Hindostan, pro¬ 
vince of Gujerat. It is situated on the south bank of the 
river Taptee, about 20 miles from its embouchure. It is a 
fortified town, contains about 70,000 inhabitants, of all na¬ 
tions and religions, and carries on a very extensive trade, not¬ 
withstanding all large vessels are obliged to remain at the 
mouth of the river called Swallow roads, where they are ra¬ 
ther exposed to storms, but the anchorage is good. Surat 
was formerly called the Imperial port, and was the place 
whence the Mahometan pilgrims were conveyed to Mecca, 
often at the expense of government. It was here that the 
English East India Company obtained permission from the 
Mogul emperor Jehangire, to establish their first factory in 
Hindostan. 
