Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Rising; swelling; surging.
  • noun In geology, a division of the Paleozoic system, according to the nomenclature suggested by H. D. Rogers, but not generally adopted.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Rising; swelling, as a flood.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Surging; rising.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin surgens, present participle of surgo ("rise, get up")

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word surgent.

Examples

  • When a parade of Linux companies went public last year, the market paid attention in part because Intel -- a major partner of Microsoft's -- revealed through its investments that it would support the in-surgent operating system.

    King Of The Vcs 2008

  • I seen him acting surgent what betwinks the scimitar star and the ashen moon.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Et surgent septem anni famis post eos: et erit in oblivione omnis abundantia in terra Aegypti, et consumet fames terram.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • It is not easy, of course, given the surgent fluid and the slippery surface.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

  • It is not easy, of course, given the surgent fluid and the slippery surface.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

  • But then he gripped my hips so I could scarcely move, and pulled me tight to him, and was eager, surgent and eruptive within me!

    Dancer Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1986

  • It is the wonderful, robust vividness of their artless yet supremely true utterance; it is the natural vigor of their surgent, unsophisticated human rhythm.

    Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads Various

  • Democracy has encountered obstacles, not merely imposed from without, but spontaneously surgent from within.

    Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

  • These shafts shall quell the surgent dark and burst

    The Masque of the Elements Herman George Scheffauer 1902

  • Angelo cried, and they streamed forward under the hurry of stars and scud, till thumping guns and pattering musket-shots, the long big boom of surgent hosts, and the muffled voluming and crash of storm-bells, proclaimed that the insurrection was hot.

    Vittoria — Volume 6 George Meredith 1868

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.