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▪ I. overlook, n.|ˈəʊvəlʊk|
[over- 16, 7, 5.]
1. The action or an act of overlooking (see next, 3–6); a glance or survey; inspection or superintendence.
1584Lodge Hist. Forbonius & Prisc. (Shaks. Soc. 1853) 84 Our noble young gentleman, having past over many personages with a slight over looke. 1865Mrs. Whitney Gayworthys I. 226 This typified properly her social position of overlook and scrutiny.
b. A look down from a height upon the scene below; a place that affords such a view.
1861L. L. Noble Icebergs 37 Paths wound among rocky notches and grassy chasms, and led out to dizzy ‘over-looks’, and ‘short-offs’. 1884Lit. World (U.S.) 23 Feb. 51/3 High overlooks upon the smiling valley.
c. Name in Jamaica for the leguminous plant Canavalia ensiformis: see quot.
1837Macfadyen Flora of Jamaica I. 292 They are commonly planted, by the Negroes, along the margin of their provision grounds, from a superstitious notion..that the Overlook fulfils the part of a watchman, and..protects the provisions from plunder. 1866Treas. Bot. s.v. Canavalia.
2. An act of overlooking (see next, 2); a failure to see or notice something; an oversight.
1887T. Bayne in Athenæum 9 July 62/3 When his attention is thus called to a manifest overlook. 1897R. Munro Prehist. Prob. 264 Simply an overlook on my part.
▪ II. overlook, v.|əʊvəˈlʊk|
[f. over- + look v.]
1. trans. To look over the top of, so as to see what is beyond. [over- 5.]
1559–60Cott. Libr. Cal. B. ix, Use ws as a fote stole to overloke ȝow. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry ii. vii. (1660) 85 The walls of townes were but low,..the walls of Winchester..were overlooked by Colebrand the Chieftaine of the Danes. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home (1883) I. 215 The wall was just too high to be overlooked.
fig.1636Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 160 If great men be kind to you, I pray you overlook them;..Christ but borroweth their face to smile through them upon His afflicted servant.
b. fig. To rise above, overtop.
1567Turberv. Epitaphs &c., Time conquereth all Things 70 b, It makes the Oke to ouerlooke the slender shrubs bylow. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iii. v. 9 Our Syens..Spirt vp so suddenly into the Clouds, And ouer-looke their Grafters. 1700Dryden Iliad i. 827 The laughing Nectar overlook'd the Lid. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. iii. (1804) 10 A..hat, whose crown over-looked the brims about an inch and a half.
2. To look over and beyond and thus not see; to fail to see or observe; to pass over without notice (intentionally or unintentionally); to take no notice of, leave out of consideration, disregard, ignore. (The chief current sense.) [over- 5.]
1524Q. Margaret to Hen. VIII (MS. Cott. Calig. B. 1, lf. 216 b) (cf. Mrs. Wood Lett. Illust. Ladies I. 326) Wylke wol be grett danger to ye Kyng my sonis parson, and thys tyme be owr lokyd. 1570Satir. Poems Reform. xvi. 9 Our Lordis ar blinde and dois ouerluik it. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. v. 147 He overlooks those gross Absurdities that are so conspicuous in it. 1762Hume Hist. Eng. I. iii. 98 The French..found it prudent to overlook this insult. 1829K. Digby Broadst. Hon., Godefridus I. 240 Agesilaus punished great men for the same faults which he overlooked in their inferiors. 1872Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxvi. 7 He oversees all and overlooks none.
†b. refl. ? To fail to perceive one's duty; to forget oneself; = oversee v. 7. Obs.
1723–4Dk. Wharton True Briton No. 65 II. 550 Vex'd that I..should have overlooked myself so far as to have given any Room [etc.].
3. To look (a thing) over or through; to examine, scrutinize, inspect, ‘survey’; to peruse, read through. Now rare or arch. [over- 16.]
c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 232 Whan I had redde thys tale wel And ouer loked hyt euerydel. 1546Supplic. Poore Commons (E.E.T.S.) 69 Youre Highnes..appoynted two of them to ouer loke the translation of the Bible. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. i. ii. 50 And yet I would I had ore-look'd the Letter. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 249, I have..transited Decimals..and shall now..overlook Logarithmes. 1744–91Wesley Wks. (1872) VIII. 319 To over-look the accounts of all the Stewards. 1870Bryant Iliad I. iv. 115 Carefully O'erlooked the wound and cleansed it from the blood.
4. To look down upon; to survey from above, or from a higher position. [over- 7.]
a1425Cursor M. 8211 (Trin.) God þat al haþ to kepe And al ouerlokeþ in his siȝt. 1530Palsgr. 648/1, I overlooke, je regarde par dessus. 1667Dryden Wild Gallant iii. i, Have you no more manners than to overlook a man when he's a writing? 1741–3Wesley Extract of Jrnl. (1749) 60 At dinner their little table, and chairs were set..where they could be overlooked. 1852I. Pfeiffer Journ. Iceland 32, I went on deck and overlooked the boundless waters.
fig.1631May tr. Barclay's Mirr. Mindes i. 284 From hence, hee..began with a scornefull pride to ouerlooke the wealth of Europe.
b. Of a place: To afford or command a view of.
1632Lithgow Trav. x. 494 Goatfield Hill..ouer-looketh our Westerne Continent. 1634Brereton Trav. (Chetham) 44 To build a chamber, which may command and overlook the river. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 259 The pump room windows overlook the King's Bath. 1895Scot. Antiq. X. 80 The brow of the hill overlooking the Nairn valley.
†5. fig. To ‘look down upon’ as from a higher social or intellectual position; to despise; to treat with contempt, to slight. Obs.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles ii. 35 Thus leuerez ouere-loked ȝoure liegis.. busshid with her brestis, and bare adoune the pouere. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 429 Þogh he iette forth a-mong þe prees, And ouer loke euerey pore wight. 1534More Comf. agst. Trib. ii. Wks. 1200/1 An whole floud of all vnhappy mischief, arrogant maner..ouerlooking the poore in woorde and countenance. 1646H. Lawrence Comm. Angells 170 To be supercilious, to overlooke men, and little things. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Phil. II. xxi. 420 The success of the present age..is very apt to elate the minds of men, and make them overlook the ancients.
6. To watch over officially, keep an eye on, look after, superintend, oversee. [over- 7.]
1532G. Hervet Xenophon's Househ. (1768) 20 They that occupy housebandrye..with ouer lokynge and takynge hede to other mens warkes. 1605Play Stucley in Simpson Sch. Shaks. I. 260 And lest they loiter we ourself in person Will overlook them. 1650Earl of Monmouth tr. Senault's Man bec. Guilty 340 He was overlooking his harvest men..judging their labour by their sheaves. 1798Washington Writ. (1893) XIV. 85 For overlooking this farm I would stretch the wages to {pstlg}45. c1830Mrs. Cameron Village Nurse 2 Mary Read had little else to do than overlook the other servants.
7. To look upon with the ‘evil eye’; to bewitch. (The most common word for this in popular use.)
1596Shakes. Merch. V. iii. ii. 15 Beshrow your eyes, They haue ore-lookt me and deuided me. 1598― Merry W. v. v. 87 Vilde worme, thou wast ore-look'd euen in thy birth. 1697W. Dampier in Phil. Trans. XX. 51 They..told them, they were Over-look'd by some unlucky Person. 1825Sporting Mag. XVI. 342 ‘I wish’, said the man, ‘we may not be overlooked’. 1887Jessopp Arcady ii. 59 [The] firm belief in being ‘overlooked’ is very much more common..than is generally supposed. 1895Elworthy Evil Eye i. 11 In England, of all animals the pig is oftenest ‘overlooked’.
8. To look or appear more than. nonce-use.
1822Byron Let. to J. Murray 23 Sept., My mind misgives me that it [the bust] is hideously like. If it is, I can not be long for this world, for it overlooks seventy.
Hence overlooked |-ˈlʊkt| ppl. a. (usually in sense 2); overˈlooking vbl. n. and ppl. a. (in various senses of the vb.).
1483Cath. Angl. 264/1 An Over lokynge, horoscopium, .i. horarum speculacio. 1601Shakes. All's Well i. i. 45 His sole childe my Lord, and bequeathed to my ouer looking. 1674Boyle Excell. Theol. i. i. 45 Unheeded prophecies, overlooked mysteries, and strange harmonies. 1676Wycherley Pl. Dealer i. i, I wou'd justle a proud, strutting, over-looking Coxcomb, at the head of his Sycophants. 1711Addison Spect. No. 169 ⁋10 This Part of Good-nature..which consists in the pardoning and overlooking of Faults. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. i. 14, I found an overlooked godsend this morning. 1898Moule Coloss. Stud. ii. 22 Habituated to the scenery of its..rushing river and..overlooking hills. |