survival (servival)

[ E. B. Tylor , Prim. Culture, II. 110. No small number of what the English stigmatize as American isms are cases of survival from former good usage. Whitney , Life and Growth of Lang., ix. 2. One who or that which thus survives, outlives, or outlasts. Survivals in Negro Funeral Ceremonies. Just before leaving, a woman, whom I judged to be the bereaved mother, laid upon the mound two or three infants' toys, Looking about among the large number of graves of children, I observed this practice to be very general. The Academy , Dec. 28, 1889, p. 442. Opinions belonging properly to lower intellectual levels, which have held their place into the higher by mere force of ancestral tradition; these are survivals. E. B. Tylor , Prim. Culture, II. 403. susceptibility It is unfortunate that so few early Eubœan inscriptions have survived the accidents of time. Isaac Taylor , The Alphabet, II. 131. Syn. Outlive , Survive. See outlive. II. in trans. To remain alive or in existence; specifically, to remain alive after the death or ce ation of some one or something. Yea, though I die, the scandal will survive. Shak., Lucrece, 1. 204. Long as Time, in Sacred Verse survive. Congreve, Birth of the Muse. The race survives whilst the individual dies. Emerson, Hist. Discourse at Concord. sur vivency rvivency (ser-vi'ven-si), (sér-vi'ven-si), nat n. LL. supervie ven ( t- ) s, ppr. of supervivere, and- cy.] A surviving; survivorship. [Rare.] Imp. Dict.