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Webster 1913 Edition


Succor

Suc′cor

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Succored
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Succoring
.]
[OE.
socouren
, OF.
sucurre
,
soucourre
,
secorre
, F.
secourir
, L.
succurrere
,
succursum
, to run under, run to the aid of, help, succor;
sub
under +
currere
to run. See
Current
.]
To run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve;
as, to
succor
a besieged city
.
[Written also
succour
.]
He is able to
succor
them that are tempted.
Heb. ii. 18.
Syn. – To aid; assist; relieve; deliver; help; comfort.

Suc′cor

,
Noun.
[OE.
socours
,
sucurs
, OF.
sucurs
,
socors
,
secors
, F.
secours
, L.
succursus
, fr. L.
succurrere
. See
Succor
,
Verb.
T.
]
1.
Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.
“We beseech mercy and succor.”
Chaucer.
My noble father . . .
Flying for
succor
to his servant Bannister.
Shakespeare
2.
The person or thing that brings relief.
This mighty
succor
, which made glad the foe.
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Succor

SUC'COR

,
Verb.
T.
[L. succurro; sub and curro, to run.]
Literally, to run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; as, to succor a besieged city; to succor prisoners.
He is able to succor them that are tempted. Heb.2.

SUC'COR

,
Noun.
Aid; help; assistance; particularly, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want or distress.
My father
Flying for succor to his servant Banister--
1.
The person or thing that brings relief.
The city when pressed received succors from an unexpected quarter.
The mighty succor which made glad the foe.

Definition 2024


succor

succor

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succor (uncountable)

  1. (archaic or obsolete) Aid, assistance or relief given to one in distress; ministration.
    • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 606515406; republished in Francis J[ames] Child, editor, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, published 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:
      Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere.

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succor (third-person singular simple present succors, present participle succoring, simple past and past participle succored)

  1. (transitive) To give such assistance.

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