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overlive, v.|əʊvəˈlɪv|
[OE. oferlibban, f. ofer- over- 18 + live v.; cf. MHG. überleben, MDu., Du. overleven.]
Now somewhat rare: cf. outlive.
a. trans. To live longer than, or after the death of (a person); to live after or beyond (an event, etc.); to survive, outlive; also fig. of things. Also, to live beyond (one's income).
830in Thorpe Charters (1865) 465 Wes hit [ðet lond] becueden Osbearte his broðar suna, ᵹif he Cyneðryðe oferlifde. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 254 If Blanche ouer lyue Edward, scho salle haf hir lyue Gascoyn afterward. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 3785 Howe lange marie ouer lyved hire sons Ascensionne. 1513Douglas æneis xi. iv. 49, I, allace, allace! Ourlevit hes my fatis profitable. 1551Bible Josh. xxiv. 31 And Israel served the Lorde all the dayes of Iosua, and all the daies of y⊇ elders that ouerliued Ioshua. 1650R. Hollingworth Exerc. Usurped Powers 19 These oathes binde..to an allegiance over-living his Majesties person. 1749J. Cleland Mem. Woman Pleasure I. 124 He was the only son of a father, who..rather over-liv'd his income. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) VI. 297 If his three daughters..should overlive their mother. 1842Tennyson Poems II. 102 Perish in thy self-contempt! Overlive it—..be happy! wherefore should I care? a1877Swinburne Lesbia Brandon (1952) iii. 36 His clear, wary, untameable eyes which had seen many dangers through, had overlived and overcome much trouble. 1881S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 207 Overlive,..to out-live; survive.
b. intr. To survive, continue in life.
c1000ælfric Gram. ix. §26. (Z.) 51 Superstes, laf oððe oferlybbende. 1422in E.E. Wills (1882) 50, I will þat þe mony..turn to þ⊇ use of her susters ouerlyuyng. 1450Rolls of Parlt. V. 208/1 Such of theyme as shal over lyf severally emongs theyme. 1524Sir R. Sutton's Will in Churton Life App. 543, I will that these iii that overlyve make a new feoffment. 1667Milton P.L. x. 773 Why do I overlive, Why am I mockt with death, and length'nd out To deathless pain? 1897Saga-Bk. of Viking Club Jan. 371 These divisions have overlived to the present time.
c. refl. To live beyond one's proper date or time of action, live too long. Also, to live too intensely, or too actively. [Cf. over- 23.]
1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 42 The Hanse had overlived itself. 1921Galsworthy To Let ii. ii. 126 He had only just relapsed, from having overworked, or overlived, himself again.
Hence ˈoverˈliving (stress var.) ppl. a., surviving; living too long; also as vbl. n. ˈoverˈlived ppl. a., nonce-wd., made to live too fast or under too high pressure. † overˈliver Obs., a survivor.
c1440Promp. Parv. 373/1 Ovyrlevare after a noþer, superstes. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 375 And if any of them happened to die, the over lyvers should doe the same. 1578T. Procter Gorg. Gallery in Heliconia I. 172 A sure beleefe did straight invade his overlyving Minde. 1622Bacon Hen. VII 191 To continue for both the kings liues, and the ouer-liuer of them, and a yeare after. a1683Oldham Poet. Wks. (1686) 101 All the Bill of Maladies, Which Heaven to punish over-living Mortals sends. 1817Scott Let. 11 Aug. (1933) IV. 496 The task of maintaining a poor renderd effeminate and vicious by over wages and over-living and necessarily cast loose upon society. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh iii. 40 Overtasked and overstrained And overlived in this close London life! |