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▪ I. oversway, n. rare.|ˈəʊvəsweɪ|
[over- 2.]
Sway or command over any one, ascendancy; superior sway or command; overlordship.
1702De Foe Mere Reform. 453 Where it gets a little oversway It hurries all our Honesty away. 1902W. Watson in Westm. Gaz. 13 June 9/2 Kingdom in kingdom, sway in oversway, Dominion fold in fold.
▪ II. oversway, v. Now rare.|əʊvəˈsweɪ|
[over- 2, 22, 21, 11, 3, 6.]
†1. trans. To exercise sway over, rule over, govern; esp. to exercise power or dominion over one who or that which itself rules or ought to rule; to domineer over, overrule, overmaster, overpower. Obs.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. (1807–8) II. 299 The perplexed state of princes, chieflie when they are overswaied with forren and prophane power. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vii. viii. §5 A number of captains, all of equal power, without some higher to oversway them. 1649Milton Eikon. ix, The parliament should oversway the King and not he the parliament. 1680Filmer Patriarcha ii. §6 (Rtldg.) 29 Three parts of five..have power to oversway the liberty of their opposites.
†b. To surpass in commanding quality; to prevail over by superior authority. Obs.
1601Bp. W. Barlow Defence 188 Not ouer-swaying the scriptures by authoritie and nomber. 1602Shakes. Ham. v. i. 251 Her death was doubtfull, And but that great Command, o're-swaies the order, She should in ground vnsanctified haue lodg'd, Till the last Trumpet. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. ii. §3 (1622) 13 This Authority..ouer-swayeth both all their reasons and authorities together. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 171 To oversway all other authority.
absol.1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. i. vii. §7 As oft as the preiudice of sensible experience doth ouersway. 1648Milton Tenure Kings Wks. 1738 I. 319 Had not their distrust in a good Cause, and the fast and loose of our prevaricating Divines oversway'd.
†c. In reference to physical qualities: To overpower by superior strength or intensity. Obs.
1605Timme Quersit. i. xiii. 54 The sulphur..doth exceed in qualitie the other two beginnings, and doth ouersway them. 1658tr. Porta's Nat. Magic xx. 396 Hot-waters of salt-waters..have a lightness that oversways the weight of the salt.
†2. To lead, influence, or persuade into some course of action; to prevail upon. Obs.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 69 Ouer-swaying the memory from the purpose whereto they were applyed. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. ii. i. 203 If he be so resolu'd, I can ore-sway him. 1619Visct. Doncaster Let. in Eng. & Germ. (Camden) 136 The reasons which overswayed me to adventure on the transgression. c1710Swift Change in Queen's Ministry Wks. 1841 I. 280/1 His ungovernable temper had over⁓swayed him to fail in his respects to her majesty's person.
3. trans. and intr. To sway over; to cause to swing, lean, or incline to one side, or so as to be overturned; to swing or incline thus.
1622F. Markham Bk. War i. iv. §4. 15 If honor suffer or hang in the ballance, ready to bee ouerswaied with the poyze of iniurie. 1664J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 15 Such ponderous Masses be subject to overswaying. 1741H. Brooke Constantia Poems (1810) 397/2 By his bulk of cumb'rous poise o'ersway'd, Full on his helm receiv'd th' adverse blade.
Hence overˈswayed ppl. a., overˈswaying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1601Sir W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca (1631) 11 When any affection of the minde..usurps an over-swaying authority. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. ix. §105. 626 Permitting the depredation of himselfe and his whole Kingdome by Papall ouer-swayings. 1613Beaum. & Fl. Coxcomb v. i, Such an overswayed sex is yours. 1705in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Col. Ch. I. 150 Now deliver'd from that Mighty overswaying Power. |