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▪ I. overˈview, v.
[over- 7, 16.]
1. trans. To view from a superior position, look down upon, survey. Also, of a place: To afford a view over, overlook.
1564J. Rastell Confut. Jewell's Serm. 20 Euery contrie, Which the glorious light of the Ghospell hath now oueruewed. c1600Timon i. iv, A man of greate accompt, that hath oreveiu'd Soe many countreyes. a1627Middleton Sp. Gypsy iii. (1653) F ij, It [the Window] over-views a spacious Garden. 1640Bp. Reynolds Passions xxiv, A lame man placed upon some high Tower can overview with his eyes more ground than [etc.]. 1864S. Warner Old Helmet I. xii. 247 Mrs. Powle's fair face would overview a moral desolation more hopeless and more cheerless [etc.].
2. To look (a thing) over or all through; to examine, inspect, peruse.
The use in quot. 1977 is influenced by overview n. 2.
1549Chaloner Erasm. on Folly L ij, How they are faine to writhe their wittes in and out..in oueruewyng it againe. 1577Hellowes Gueuara's Chron. 252 Commodus had ouerviewed and ransackt their store. 1632Sir S. D'Ewes Autobiog. (1845) II. 71, I spent the remainder of this month in overviewing and sorting them [coins]. 1935E. R. Eddison Mistress of Mistresses xi. 197 From the sweep of eagles' wings it becometh us overview the matter, and what's just and allowable of our greatness, choose that. 1977Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 1976 XXI. i. 17 The interplay of physiological-cognitive factors with respect to early speech perception and production has been critically overviewed by Gilbert (1975).
Hence overˈviewing vbl. n.
1590Queen Elizabeth in Tolstoy 1st 40 Yrs. Interc. Eng. & Russ. (1875) 364 We refferre the effect of all thos causes generall to your h[ighnes]s delyberat overvewing againe. 1935E. R. Eddison Mistress of Mistresses xii. 225, I would have you, as a politic prince.., refer the whole estate you are in to your highness' deliberate overviewing again.
▪ II. ˈoverview, n.
[f. prec.]
†1. Survey, inspection; supervision; overlooking. Obs.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. iii. 175 Too bitter is thy iest. Are wee betrayed thus to thy ouer-view? 1644Laud Wks. (1854) IV. 242 The business of leaving the care of these books and the overview of them to my chaplains.
2. orig. U.S. A survey, summary, or comprehensive review of facts or ideas; a concise statement or outline of a subject. Hence ˈoverviewer, one who formulates an overview.
1934Amer. Speech IX. 318/2 Editors testify that the new noun overview is now being worked as hard by educationists as ‘purposeful’, ‘challenge’, ‘objective’, ‘motivation’, et al., have been in the past. 1944Mind LIII. 276 According to the jacket..the purpose of this book is to present ‘an overview of present-day philosophical trends’. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Mar. 173/4 Her ‘overview’ of psycho-analytical thought is therefore followed by detailed expositions of the views of the principle dissidents. 1967Wall St. Jrnl. 4 May 4/3 The first step is to take an ‘overview’ of the problem. 1969M. Crichton Andromeda Strain v. 44 A scientist with a conscience, an overview, an appreciation of the significance of events. 1969M. Scriven in N. R. Hanson Perception & Discovery p. vii, There is a..tension between the demands of exact historical scholarship and the more free-ranging interests of the overviewer. 1973Nature 6 July 59/3 The chief drawback of this volume is that it lacks a chapter devoted to a critical overview of the comparative relevance of particular models as they relate to particular experimental ends. 1974Florida FL Reporter XIII. 31/2 With presumably Ms. Hess as overviewer making some critical commentary on which of the arguments were stronger and why. 1975A. S. Miskimin Renaissance Chaucer viii. 230 In an overview such as this, many questions will be begged. 1975Sci. Amer. May 119/2 The first 50 pages of overview include a neat account of the logical architecture of possible machines. 1975Listener 31 July 130/2 In its latest policy ‘overview’, the State Department ponders [etc.]. |