surprize
English
Noun
surprize (countable and uncountable, plural surprizes)
- (now rare and nonstandard) Alternative spelling of surprise
- 1813, William Francis Patrick Napier, quoting Charle Napier, The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B., Cambridge Univ. Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 236:
- Guard well against surprize; to be surprized is inexcusable in a general, if it happens from his neglect of proper posts: if his troops are surprized in good posts they must be in a dreadful state, which can hardly be the fault of any one but the general.
Verb
surprize (third-person singular simple present surprizes, present participle surprizing, simple past and past participle surprized)
- (now rare and nonstandard) Alternative spelling of surprise
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:
- The petty-fogger now likewise departed, and then Jones desired the favour of Mrs Whitefield’s company to drink tea with him; but she refused, and with a manner so different from that with which she had received him at dinner, that it a little surprized him.
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Usage notes
The z spelling was as common as the s spelling into the early 1700s, but has been rare ever since, and is now nonstandard.
References
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary, surprize
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