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overgild, v.|əʊvəˈgɪld|
[f. over- 8 + gild v. (q.v. for Forms).]
trans. To gild over, cover with gilding; fig. to tinge with a golden colour. Chiefly in pa. pple.
c1200Ormin 2612 Butt iff itt beo þurrh þildess gold All full wel oferrgildedd. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 96/159 An ymage, briȝt and schene Ouer-guld and quoynte i-nov. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 445 A combe of yvorie somdel overgilt. 1420in E.E. Wills (1882) 46 Also a spyce disshe of seluer, & ouerguld. 1508Dunbar Golden Targe 27 The purpur hevyn our scailit in silvir sloppis Ourgilt the treis, branchis, lef[is] and barkis. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 27 All cunning drifts ouerguylded with outward holinesse. 1612W. Parkes Curtaine Dr. (1876) 22 Those golden words that so ouerguild such bitter pilles. 1821Byron Two Foscari iii. i. 65 The full sun, When gorgeously o'ergilding any towers. 1861Trench Comm. Ep. to 7 Ch. 149 Royal sceptres are not usually of iron, but of wood overgilded.
Hence overˈgilding vbl. n., overˈgilt ppl. a.
a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 873 In an overgilt samet Cladde she was. 1477Rolls of Parlt. VI. 184/2 The thyng in which any such overgildyng shal be. |