Survive
(Sur*vive"), v. i. To remain alive; to continue to live.
Thy pleasure,
Which, when no other enemy survives,
Still conquers all the conquerors.
Sir J. Denham.
Alike are life and death,
When life in death survives.
Longfellow. Survivency
(Sur*viv"en*cy) n. Survivorship. [R.]
Surviver
(Sur*viv"er) n. One who survives; a survivor.
Surviving
(Sur*viv"ing), a. Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs.
Survivor
(Sur*viv"or) n.
1. One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing.
The survivor bound
In filial obligation for some term
To do obsequious sorrow.
Shak. 2. (Law) The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two persons having a joint interest in anything. Blackstone.
Survivorship
(Sur*viv"or*ship), n.
1. The state of being a survivor.
1. (Law) The right of a joint tenant, or other person who has a joint interest in an estate, to take the
whole estate upon the death of other. Blackstone.
Chance of survivorship, the chance that a person of a given age has of surviving another of a giving
age; thus, by the Carlisle tables of mortality the chances of survivorship for two persons, aged 25 and
65, are 89 and 11 respectively, or about 8 to 1 that the elder die first.
Susceptibility
(Sus*cep`ti*bil"i*ty) n.; pl. Susceptibilities [Cf. F. susceptibilité.]
1. The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.
2. Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; sensitiveness.
Magnetic susceptibility (Physics), the intensity of magnetization of a body placed in a uniform megnetic
field of unit strength. Sir W. Thomson.
Syn. — Capability; sensibility; feeling; emotion.
Susceptible
(Sus*cep"ti*ble) a. [F., from L. suscipere, susceptum, to take up, to support, undertake,
recognize, admit; pref. sus (see Sub-) + capere to take. See Capable.]
1. Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as,
a body susceptible of color or of alteration.
It sheds on souls susceptible of light,
The glorious dawn of our eternal day.
Young. 2. Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive; as, children are more susceptible
than adults; a man of a susceptible heart.
Candidates are . . . not very susceptible of affronts.
Cowper.
I am constitutionally susceptible of noises.
Lamb.
