suffossiont (sufoshon)

[ L.suffo io (n-), a digging under, an undermining, Those suffo ions of walls, those powder-trains. Bp. Hall, St. Paul's Combat. suffragan (suf'ra-gan), a. and n. [ frag an bishop; a suffragan see. In ecclesiastical usage every bishop of a province is said to be suffragan relatively to the archbishop. See suffragan bishop, under bishop. The election of archbishops had... been a continual subject of dispute between the suffragan bishops and the Goldsmith, Hist. Eng., xiv. Augustine monks. II. n. 1. An auxiliary bishop, especially one with no right of ordinary jurisdiction; in the Ch. of Eng ., a bishop who has been consecrated to a ist the ordinary bishop of a see in a particular part of his diocese, like the ancient chore pisco pus (which see). 6045 adoption or rejection of fundamental laws: usually with the definite article. The suffrage was not yet regarded as a right incident to manhood, and could be extended only according to the judgment of those who were found in po e ion of it. Bancroft, Hist. Const., II. 118. 3. Testimony; attestation; witne . Every miracle is the suffrage of Heaven to the truth of a doctrine. South. 4. Eccles., an interce ory prayer or petition. The suffrages of all the saints. sufic