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overˈarching, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ing2.]
Arching over; forming an arch overhead; bending over as an arch. Also fig.
1720Gay Dione iii. ii, Hast thou yet found the over⁓arching bower, Which guards Parthenia from the sultry hour? 1725Pope Odyss. ix. 216 A fence of marble from the rock, Brown with o'er-arching pine, and spreading oak. 1845Hirst Poems 32 From the valley dark and deep To the over-arching sky. 1913[see lamp-shine s.v. lamp n.1 4 a]. 1926J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 192 The great biological invention, the amnion, came into existence—an overarching membrane grown by the embryo for its own protection. 1929V. Woolf Granite & Rainbow (1958) 98 Some over-arching conception, something which we may call ‘a reading of life.’ 1938E. Bevan Symbolism & Belief iii. 62 The wholly separate world he sees overhead..gives, as nothing else can give, the vision of overarching immensity. 1972Listener 9 Mar. 301/3 There is a hunger for sociological theory—but there is no over-arching Newtonian scheme..by which the differences can be resolved. 1976Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. XXVII. 348 The ‘world economy’..is a world-system like the world-empire—but which has no overarching political structure. |