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overˈgang, v. Now Sc. and north. dial.
[OE. ofergangan = OHG. ubargangan, Goth. ufargaggan: see over- in various senses.]
1. trans. To tread over, trample upon, conquer, overpower, get the better of. [over- 1, 21.]
a1000Riddles xli. 10 (Gr.) Mec..slæp ofergongeð. a1000Cædmon's Exod. 561 (Gr.) Þæt ᵹe feonda ᵹehwone forð ofergangað. c1200Ormin 10228 To werenn hemm wiþþ wiþerrþeod Þatt wollde hemm oferrganngenn. a1300Cursor M. 5505 (Cott.) Ioseph kin ouer-ganges all, Þat to our eldres was a thrall. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 141 Allace! ȝour grace hes done greit wrang, To suffer tyrannis in sic sort, Daylie ȝour liegis till ouergang. 1715Pennecuik Many's Truth's Trav. in Poems 94 For fear that Truth should clean ou'rgang them. 1795Burns Old Song, ‘O ay my wife’, If ye gie a woman a' her will, Guid faith, she'll soon o'ergang ye.
†2. To go over, cross, overstep; to transgress; = overgo v. 2, 2 b. (OE. and ME.) [over- 12.]
a1000Boeth. Metr. xx. 71 Heora æniᵹ oðres ne dorste mearce ofergangan. c1000Ags. Ps. (Spelm.) xvii. 31 Ic ofer⁓gange weall. a1275Prov. ælfred 444 in O.E. Misc. 129 Þanne sal þi child Þi forbod ouer-gangin.
3. To go over; to overrun, overspread. [over- 9.]
a1300Cursor M. 22132 (Cott.) Ouer all þar crist was wont to ga, [Anticrist] þaim sal ouer-gang alsua. 1570Satir. Poems Reform. xvi. 86, I thinke the holkis ouergangis ȝour ene. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. i. 122 Quha..lattis gude ground..ouirgang wt weidis. 1766Pitcairn Assembly 13 (E.D.D.) That place is all overgrown with briers and thorns, and they'll soon o'ergang Scotland too. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Ower-gang, to over-run.
4. To go beyond, exceed. [over- 13.]
1737Ramsay Prov. (1750) 95 The pains o'ergangs the profit. 1822Galt Provost xxxv, The outlay I thought as likely to o'ergang the profit.
Hence † overˈganger, (a) one who overcomes, a conqueror; (b) an overseer, superintendent (Sc.).
c1340Hampole Prose Tr. 29 By Jacob in Haly Writt es vndirstande ane ouerganger of synnes. Ibid. 30 Ouer⁓ganger and ouercommere of all synnes. |