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overleap, v.|əʊvəˈliːp|
[OE. oferhléapan; answering in form to MDu. overlôpen, Du. overloopen, MHG. überloufen, Ger. überlaufen, ‘to run over, overrun, overflow’; OHG. had a deriv. ubarhlaupnissî prevarication, transgression.]
1. trans. To leap over, across, or to the other side of. [over- 5.]
a900tr. Bæda's Hist. v. vi. (1890) 400 Wæs þæt hit sume sloh on þæm wæᵹe mid swiðþran ræse oferhleop and oferstælde. 1605Shakes. Macb. i. iv. 49 That is a step, On which I must fall downe, or else o're-leape, For in my way it lyes. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 181 Th' arch-fellon..At one slight bound high overleap'd all bound Of Hill or highest Wall. 1860Motley Netherl. (1868) I. i. 5 The ambition of the Spaniard, which has overleaped so many lands and seas.
b. fig. with immaterial obj. (usually bounds, limits, or the like).
1775De Lolme Eng. Const. i. xii. (1853) 118 Procuring a public advantage by overleaping restraints. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 247 His ingenuity does indeed far overleap the heads of all your great men.
†c. intr. To leap over. Obs. rare.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxxviii. 37 [33] In to the chirche thei shul not ouerlepen [Vulg. transilient].
2. trans. To pass over, pass by, omit, leave out, ‘skip’. (Now only as consciously fig. from 1.)
c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 264 Se dæᵹ is ᵹehaten saltus lunæ, þæt is ðæs monan hlyp, for þan þe he oferhlypð ænne dæᵹ. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 2916 Y wyl now ouer lepe hyt here. c1425Craft Nombrynge (E.E.T.S.) 25 Ouer lepe alle þese cifers & sett þat neþer 2 þat stondes toward þe ryght side. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. x. (Arb.) 99 Your rime falleth vpon the first and fourth verse ouerleaping two. 1641Smectymnuus Vind. Answ. i. 5 Whatever objection made by us, he finds too heavy to remove, he over-leaps it. 1846Trench Mirac. i. (1862) 109 All the intervening steps of these tardier processes were overleaped.
†b. intr. To turn aside from the main discourse; to digress. Obs. rare.
1393Langland P. Pl. C. xxi. 360 A lytel ich ouer-lep for lesynges sake.
†3. To leap or spring upon. Obs. rare. [over- 7.]
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. Prol. 150 For a cat of a courte cam whan hym lyked, And ouerlepe hem lyȝtlich and lauȝte hem at his wille. Ibid. 199 Þat cat..þat canȝow ouerlepe.
†4. To leap farther than, surpass in leaping; fig. to surpass, excel. Obs. [over- 22.]
a1340Hampole Psalter lxi. 1 Þe halyman ouerlepand in thoght of heuen all warldis lufers. 1603Florio Montaigne i. xx. (1632) 41 Leaping, and straining himselfe to overleape another.
b. refl. To leap beyond one's measure or mark, or beyond what one intends; to leap too far.
1605Shakes. Macb. i. vii. 27 Vaulting Ambition, which ore⁓leapes it self, And falles on th' other.
So † ˈoverleap n. Obs., a leaping over; omission.
1610Bp. Hall Apol. Brownists 34 We like not these bold ouer-leapes of so many Centuries. |