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