Monday, September 11, 2006
WORD OF THE WEEK
Surcease\sur-sees; sur-SEES\, noun -- Cessation; stop; end. With no promise of surcease in sight, Rocky continued to pound back glasses of white wine while attending a get together in Hatchett Lake. He woke up the next morning and yearned for surcease to his headache and projectile vomiting. Despite his hangover, he was determined there would be no surcease to his plans to go out and get his buzz-on again Saturday night.
Surcease comes from Old French sursis, past participle of surseoir, "to refrain," from Latin supersedere, "to sit above, to sit out," from super, "above" + sedere, "to sit."
(Word of the week is the newest Ray of Delight feature. Each Monday there will be a new word posted. Try and use it in conversation as much as you can and before you know it , the breadth our vocabulary will have no surcease :-)
:: posted by Ray of Delight, 11:44 AM
