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- adjective Obsolete form of
surprised . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
surprise .
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Examples
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Failing the Second Commandment, the appearance of the Image of the Messiah upon a Bottle would not, I think, have surpris'd Moses.
"A 'Virtuous vanilla' lip balm and a 'Get Tight with Christ' hand and body cream, featuring a picture of Christ flanked by two adoring women." Ann Althouse 2008
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Relation, cannot but be surpris'd at the Advances that may be made in
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Flies o'er the stage, surpris'd with mortal fright;
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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-- Was you not surpris'd, _my dear_, continued her Ladyship, to be so accosted by the gentleman below?
Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning
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I am not much surpris'd at the contents of your Lordship's letter, it is
Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning
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_Virgil_ and _Horace_ to revisit the World at this time, they'd be wonderfully surpris'd to see the minutest of their Perfections discover'd by the Assistances of _Modern Criticism_.
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I was not much surpris'd at the particulars you are pleas'd to mention about Rousseau.
Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918
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I was not much surpris'd at the particulars you are pleas'd to mention about Rousseau.
Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914
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The governor read it, and seem'd surpris'd when he was told my age.
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They seem'd surpris'd that I did not immediately comply with their proposal.
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