单词 | overfare |
释义 | overfarev. 1. intransitive. To pass over, across, or through. Now archaic.Sometimes with perfect tense formed with to be. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel across or beyond to come overeOE overfareOE overstridea1200 overgoc1225 to go over1415 cross1486 forpass1486 to make over1488 to put over1590 to make through1606 traject1711 OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 234 Peregre transeo, ælþeodiglice ic oferfare. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1105 Se cyng Heanrig..for ofer sæ into Normandig... Ðis wæs swiðe gedyrfsum gear her on lande..þurh þa mænigfealde gyld þe næfre ne geswican ær se cyng oferfore, & þa hwile þe he þær wæs, & eft syððan he ongean com. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2487 To flum iurdon..he ben cumen, And ouer pharan til ebron. c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 1241 Anoþer ȝer þou miȝt ouer fare. c1425 Evangelie (Bodl. Add.) 758 in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1915) 30 586 (MED) While he to Rome toke þe wey, in Cisile he harde say þat þe kinges were ouer fare in þe shippes þat were þare. 1890 Cent. Dict. Overfare, to go over; pass. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. I. i. 32 To meet him at the very coast; Whence he, in arms, would overfare to Britain. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > cross or pass over overstyeOE overleapeOE overfareOE overgoc1225 passc1300 overpassa1382 to pass through ——a1382 overlendc1450 overmetec1480 overspana1522 cross1583 transpass1626 overwenda1649 overmarcha1805 peregrinate1835 OE Genesis A (1931) 1801 Beorn bliðemod and his broðor sunu forð oferforan folcmæro land. OE Homily: Sunnandæges Spell (Corpus Cambr. 419) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 210 Moyses oferfor þa readan sæ. c1175 ( Homily: Hist. Holy Rood-tree (Bodl. 343) (1894) 18 He þa mid mycele blisse ða ea ofer for. c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 387 An ouer uareþ fele þode. a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cxxiii. 4 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 259 Ouerfaren had our saule swiftlike Watre þat was vntholandlike. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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