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单词 overfare
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overfarev.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈfɛː/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈfɛ(ə)r/
Forms: see over- prefix and fare v.1
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch overvaren (Dutch overvaren ), Middle Low German ȫvervāren , Old High German ubarfaran (Middle High German übervarn , German überfahren ) < the Germanic base of over- prefix + the Germanic base fare v.1
1. intransitive. To pass over, across, or through. Now archaic.Sometimes with perfect tense formed with to be.
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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.
2. transitive. To pass over; to cross, traverse; (also) to overrun in war. Obsolete.
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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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