supprime

verb

1. To suppress (in various senses).

   rare

   This triumph of orthodoxy, however, was not able to stop the impuls of the new renaissance, and the taste for a literary and profane art, that had been always supprimed by orthodoxy in Byzantium, prevailed.

Where it comes from

From Middle English supprymen, from Middle French supprimer and its etymon Latin supprimere, supprimō (“to press down, suppress”), from sub- (“under, down”) + premō (“to press”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry supprime (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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