Sur*viv"er (?), n. One who survives; a survivor.
Sur*viv"ing, a. Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving
friends; surviving customs.
Sur*viv"or (?), n. 1. One who survives or outlives another person, or
any time, event, or thing.
The survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do
obsequious sorrow.
Shak.
2. (Law) The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two persons having a
joint interest in anything. Blackstone.
Sur*viv"or*ship, n. 1. The state of being a survivor.
1. (Law) The right of a joint tenant, or other person who has a joint
interest in an estate, to take the whole estate upon the death of
other. Blackstone.
Chance of survivorship, the chance that a person of a given age has of
surviving another of a giving age; thus, by the Carlisle tables of
mortality the chances of survivorship for two persons, aged 25 and 65,
are 89 and 11 respectively, or about 8 to 1 that the elder die first.
Sus*cep`ti*bil"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Susceptibilities (#). [Cf. F.
susceptibilité.] 1. The state or quality of being susceptible; the
capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.
2. Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement;
sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility;
sensitiveness.
Magnetic susceptibility (Physics), the intensity of magnetization of a
body placed in a uniform megnetic field of unit strength. Sir W.
Thomson.
Syn. -- Capability; sensibility; feeling; emotion.
Sus*cep"ti*ble (?), a. [F., from L. suscipere, susceptum, to take up,
to support, undertake, recognize, admit; pref. sus (see Sub-) + capere
to take. See Capable.] 1. Capable of admitting anything additional, or
any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body
susceptible of color or of alteration.
It sheds on souls susceptible of light, The glorious dawn of our
eternal day.
Young.
2. Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender;
sensitive; as, children are more susceptible than adults; a man of a
susceptible heart.
Candidates are . . . not very susceptible of affronts.
Cowper.