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overˈtread, v.
[OE. ofertredan: cf. MHG. übertreten, Du. overtreden: see over- 1, 9, 13.]
trans. a. To tread over, trample under foot; fig. to crush, oppress, subdue. b. To step beyond.
a1000Gloss. to Prudentius 9 a (Bosw.), Se ᵹeleafa ofertret ðæt deofolgyld. c1200Ormin 12493 Þærþurrh þe Laferrd oferrcomm & oferrtradd te deofell. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 168 Traiane his Sonne rode an hors vndauntdid, that ouer-trade a weddowes Sone in the strete. 1576Gascoigne Steele Gl. (Arb.) 49 When wrong triumphes and right is overtrodde. c1620How Good in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1848) 99 Yet must we not this circle overtread.
Hence ˈovertread n., ˈoverˈtreading vbl. n., the act or action of treading over; overtread(ing) plough, the foot-plough used in primitive husbandry; overˈtrodden ppl. a., trodden down.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. Wks. 1724 II. 625 The footsteps of my over-trodden virtue lie still as bitter accusations unto me. a1843Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. III. 748 The land before his time having been tilled only with a mattock and overtread plough. 1893A. C. Fryer Llantwit Major 26 To cultivate their ground with the mattock and over⁓treading plough. |