| 释义 |
overseen, ppl. a.|əʊvəˈsiːn|
Forms: 4 ouerseie, 4–6 -seyn(e, 5–6 -sayne, -sene, 5–7 -seene, 5– -seen, (6 -sayne, -sean).
[Pa. pple. of oversee. In part with active meaning: cf. mistaken.]
1. That has ‘overseen himself’ (see oversee 7); betrayed into a fault or blunder; deceived, deluded, mistaken, in error; acting imprudently, hasty, rash (in an action). Now arch. or dial.
1390Gower Conf. III. 373 It were a thing unresonable, A man to be so overseie. Forthi tak hiede of that I seie. 1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) iii. iii. 318 b/1 They that wyll saye that he was an heretyke ben fooles & ouerseen. 1519Interlude Four Elements in Hazl. Dodsley I. 33 Methink you far oversayne. 1535Coverdale Prov. xxiv. 10 Yf thou be ouersene & necligent in tyme of nede, then is thy strength but small. 1608Willet Hexapla Exod. 151 How Rupertus was so much ouerseene to alleage a text no where extant. 1786Nelson Let. June in Nicolas Disp. (1845) I. 177 However Mr. Adye might have been overseen in his Opinion as to the right of Seizure. 1872St. James' Mag. May 164 She..had been so overseen as to encourage the young man's visits.
b. overseen with (or in) drink, also simply overseen: Drunk, intoxicated. Obs. exc. dial.
c1475How Good Wife taught Dau. 164 in Q. Eliz. Acad. 49 Syte not to longe vppe at euene, For drede with ale þou be ouer-sene. 1532Elyot Let. in Gov. (1883) Life 78 Men callyth him overseene, that is drunke, whan he neither knowith what he doeth, nor what he owght to doo. 1628Earle Microcosm., Colledge Butler (Arb.) 37 Hee is a very sober man considering his manifold temptations of drinke,..and if hee be ouer-seene, tis within his owne liberties, and no man ought to take exceptions. 1678Robin Hood in Thoms Prose Rom. (1858) II. 122, I cannot well tell whether he was overseen with wine or rage.
†2. That has looked into or studied a subject (cf. oversee 2); versed, skilled, ‘well seen’ in some department of knowledge. (Cf. well-read.)
1533More Answ. Poysoned Bk. Wks. 1094/1 The man is a wyse man and wel ouer sene in arguing. 1550Bale Apol. 51 Ye are a great wise prelate & wel oversean in matters. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry ii. vi. (1660) 68 They would be thought to be well overseen in Heraldry.
†3. Overlooked, unnoticed: see oversee 6. Obs.
1608Bp. Hall Char. Virtues & V., Honest Man, He bewraies the fault of what he sells, and restores the ouerseene gaine of a false reckoning. |