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surgent, a. and n.|ˈsɜːdʒənt|
[ad. L. surgentem, surgens, pr. pple. of surgĕre to rise: see surge v.]
A. adj.
1. a. Rising or swelling in waves, or as a flood or spring; surging. lit. and fig.
a1592Greene Alphonsus i. Wks. (Rtldg.) 226/1 When the surgent seas Have ebb'd their fill, then waves do rise again. 1854Sala Dutch Pict. vii, Her voice is melancholy and tristfully surgant [sic]. 1887Meredith Ballads & P. 151 The surgent springs Of recollections. 1896G. A. Smith Twelve Proph. (1900) I. 105 A Deity who is not only manifest Character, but surgent and importunate Feeling.
b. gen. Rising, ascending.
1885G. Macdonald Diary Old Soul Oct. 31 My surgent thought shoots lark-like up to thee.
c. Psychol. A term used by the psychologist R. B. Cattell (b. 1905), in his factorial analysis of personality, to designate a type characterized by resourcefulness and responsiveness considered as a distinct source trait.
1933R. B. Cattell in Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 326 The essence of the temperament is expressible by some term conveying the idea of ‘leaping’ or ‘rising up’ with facility. ‘Repressed’ and ‘Unrepressed’ convey more than we are entitled to infer at present... The word ‘Surgent’, from the Latin surgo, seems most aptly to express the quality which the tests reveal. 1940J. Bowlby Personality & Mental Illness v. 71 This division corresponds roughly to the division of surgent personalities into good- and bad-tempered. 1968Psychol. Abstr. XLII. 68/2 Findings..gave more significance to the covariances between ‘surgent’ character traits and inventive factors.
2. Geol. Applied by H. D. Rogers to the fifth of his fifteen divisions of the palæozoic formations in the Appalachian chain, synonymous with the Clinton group of N. America, and partly corresponding to the Middle Silurian of Europe.
1858H. D. Rogers Geol. Pennsylv. I. 106.
†B. n. One who (or that which) rises in rebellion or opposition; cf. insurgent. Obs. rare—1.
1657F. Cockin Div. Blossomes 107 If thou art spoused unto Christ, O soul, each surgent I'll controule.
Hence ˈsurgency, the attribute possessed by the surgent personality (see sense 1 c of the adj.).
1933R. B. Cattell in Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 327 The amount of [trait] ‘c’ possessed by any individual could be referred to as the degree of Surgency. 1940J. Bowlby Personality & Mental Illness v. 70 The hypomanic personality has much surgency. 1952Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. May 153 The range covered is very comprehensive, including such recent words as..narcoanalysis, surgency and tele. 1973R. B. Cattell Personality & Mood i. 10 Intelligence, ego strength, surgency, and characterological anxiety..are source traits. |
