Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A simplified spelling of
succumb .
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Examples
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It is not safe to launch out into the deep at first, nor to venture into points difficult and controverted until we have first thoroughly digested the elements of the oracles of God and turned them in succum et sanguinem -- into juice and blood.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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I'd love to succum to comfort; I was always encouraged to "Sell out" - but oddly I never found anyone willing to buy.
Pain and dying: lay down your life. Elizabeth McClung 2009
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I am terrified that I will eventually succum to overindulgence and create a lifetime of misery for me and my loved ones.
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Intemperies facit succum nigrum, nigrities, obscurat spiritum, obscuratio spiritus facit metum et tristiam.
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Animo errat, et quidvis obvium loquitur, vigilias absque causa sustinet, et succum corporis subito amisit.
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Of his pious practice; he meditates in the law of God, turns that in succum et sanguinem -- into juice and blood, and that makes him like a tree.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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Puto autem illis succum sordidum quem supra diximus carnis loco à natura attributum fuisse: atque meatibus latioribus tanquam intestinis aut interaneis uti.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Instutions have for 90 years been quietly and slowly working to eleiminate Democracy and make this Nation especially succum to the Financial Institutions.
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Instutions have for 90 years been quietly and slowly working to eleiminate Democracy and make this Nation especially succum to the Financial Institutions.
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Instutions have for 90 years been quietly and slowly working to eleiminate Democracy and make this Nation especially succum to the Financial Institutions.
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