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overpeer, v.|əʊvəˈpɪə(r)|
[over- 7, 1 (b). In sense 1 f. peer v. to look; but in 2 app. associated with peer n. equal, etc., or its derived vb. peer to equal, rival, vie with: cf. outpeer v., of which overpeer is in some cases a synonym.]
1. trans. To peer over, look over, look across from above, look down on.
1589Greene Menaphon Wks. (Grosart) VI. 36 A hill that ouer-peered the great Mediterraneum. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. iv. 11 To ouer-peere the Citie, And thence discouer, how with most aduantage They may vex vs with Shot or with Assault. 1596H. Clapham Briefe Bible i. 63 Moses..mounteth the Mount Nebo: from whence overpeering Iordan, he beholdeth the land of Promise. 1898Daily Chron. 17 Oct. 5/1 The nymph..fancied that an officer overpeering her garden wall like that must necessarily be on horseback!
†b. To ‘look down upon’, treat with contempt, domineer over. Obs.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xxxv. 209 If we be so high-minded that euerie of vs could finde in his heart to ouer⁓peere his Neighbour. 1590Marlowe Edw. II, i. iv, We will not thus be faced and over-peered.
2. To rise or appear above; to tower over; to have a higher position than; to excel, outpeer.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. iii. (1593) 60 Phœbe was of personage so comely and so tall, That by the middle of her necke she over-peerd them all. 1586Kyd Wks. (1901) 339 With thy Roselike, Royal peace (O Prince) all other princes thou must ouer-peere. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. i. 12 Your Argosies, with portly saile, Like Signiors and rich Burgers on the flood,..Do ouer-peere, the pettie Traffiquers That curtsie to them. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 26 For a commodious green place,..not Salisbury Plain or Newmarket Heath..may overpeer, or outcrow her. 1647Trapp Marrow Gd. Authors in Comm. Ep. 652 Like the Ivy which rising at the foot, will over-peer the highest wall. 1899J. Smith Chr. Charac. as Soc. Power 123 Generous and unselfish principles overpeer the coarser and more self-regarding impulses.
Hence overˈpeering vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1598J. Dickenson Greene in Conc. (1878) 150 Wind-tossed waues which with a gyring course Circle the Centers-ouer-peering maine. 1611Cotgr., Sursaille,..an ouerpeering, or ouergrowing. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 188 This valley of Iehosaphat..to the East of the City, contracted betweene it and the ouer-pearing hils of the opposite Oliuet. 1895Q. Rev. Apr. 349 The penalty of overpeering science. |