单词 | overbearing |
释义 | overbearingn. 1. ΚΠ a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 66 v Translacio, ouerberynge. b. The action or fact of overpowering or overwhelming by force; forcible subversion. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > prevailing or mastering > overcoming or overwhelming conquestc1315 overcoming1340 vanquishment1593 overbearing1596 overwielding1597 down-bearing1629 overwhelming1645 overwhelmment1866 1596 Acts Privy Council (1902) XXVI. 106 If we should accept your wordes of overbearinge to have bene done or suffered by us. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xxiii. 227 The Judgement..if it be led by the over-bearings of passion..the practice will be as irregular, as the conceptions erroneous. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. lxii The over-bearing of their Course..by a Northwest Wind. 1921 B. Jarrett Eng. Dominicans vi. 123 Protesting furiously against this overbearing of canon and common law, Bishop de Lisle appealed [etc.]. 2. Imperious or dictatorial behaviour; arrogant exercise of power or assertion of superiority; an instance of this. Also with plural agreement (with the): overbearing people as a class. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] > domineering or overbearing lording?a1425 masterdomc1475 imperiousness1582 domineering1617 dictatoring1644 overbearing1649 magisteriousness1650 magisterialness1651 high-handednessa1658 peremptoriness1699 dictation1769 overbearingnessa1797 dictatorialism1826 bashawism1839 dictatorialness1845 domineeringness1889 overmasterfulness1899 bossiness1928 overdoggery1962 1649 J. Jubbes Apol. unto Officers Lord Generals Army 6 The least overbearings in your Councels, as things standeth, may right-wel tend to great national evils. 1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. xii. 245 Wrath and Fury and Overbearing upon these Occasions proceed..from Men's feeling only on their own Side. 1823 J. Neal Randolph II. 275 It is that which will deter the overbearing, forever, from ministering to their own passions, by violence. 1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) iii. 82 There is always some levelling circumstance that puts down the overbearing, the strong, the rich [etc.]. 1890 Spectator 9 Aug. 181/2 The man of whose overbearing and coarseness history and tradition tell us that they must have known enough. 2005 Independent (Electronic ed.) 6 July 32 If he drove some people mad with his absolutes and overbearing, he confirmed as many with his enthusiasms. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). overbearingadj. 1. a. Bearing or weighing down; overpowering, overwhelming. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [adjective] > overcoming or overwhelming tyrannous1549 overwhelming1567 overpowering1616 overbearing1639 surprising1645 defeating1661 knock-down1690 overcoming1704 knocking1711 knock-me-down1944 1639 G. Chapman & J. Shirley Trag. Chabot iii. sig. E3v But who grones for this? the subject, who murmure, and are ready to beginne a rebellion, but the tumultuous saylers, and water-rats, who runne up and downe the citie, like an overbearing tempest. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 38 By conviction of some Truths, and this may be..by a strong and over-bearing presenting of them to the Understanding. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. vi. 226 Evidence acknowledged real, if it be not overbearing. 1783 H. Cowley Bold Stroke for Husband i. ii. 9 Had the torrent, now so over-bearing, been taken at the springing, it might have been stem'd. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 132 That they could force the system to yield to its powers by the overbearing arms of weight and measure. 1875 A. Trollope Way we live Now II. xcii. 266 The bereaved one chooses to affect such overbearing sorrow. 1922 A. Pound Iron Man in Industry iv. 83 Injustices..sometimes flow from mistaken policies applied with overbearing weight. 1985 J. Barnes Flaubert's Parrot 116 How seriously do we take Gustave's petulance against the overbearing fame of the book [sc. Madame Bovary]? 2000 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 1 Apr. 10 Land Rover will..have the chance to prove themselves..free from the overbearing burden of 20 years of underdevelopment. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree > excessive in degree unmeasurablea1398 dismeasurec1400 dismeasurable1477 dismeasured1483 over1494 endlya1513 intolerable1544 wide1574 overloading1576 unconscionable1576 meanless1587 powerable1588 hyperbolical1589 extravagant1598 grievous1632 flagrant1634 exorbitant1648 overbearinga1708 unbalanced1712 well-favoured1746 steep1856 thick1884 ripe1918 a1708 W. Beveridge Private Thoughts Relig. (1709) 16 'Tis natural for all Men to have an overbearing Opinion and Esteem for that particular Religion they are born and bred up in. 2. Of a person, a person's attributes, etc.: tending to overrule others, or to ignore or discount their wishes and feelings; imperious, domineering, bullying. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [adjective] > domineering or overbearing masterfulc1390 pontificalc1440 overmasterfula1450 headya1513 imperious1529 supercilious1536 masterlya1544 termagant1546 law-like1556 masterlike1580 dictator-like1582 peremptory1590 domineering1598 burly1605 high-handed1606 pontificial1613 lording1629 overlordingc1629 pontifician1629 peremptor1630 dictatory1639 predominant1642 dictatorial1692 pontific1716 overbearing1718 dictativea1774 knock-me-down1848 imponenta1882 bossy1882 heavy-handed1883 seigneurial1970 1718 C. Cibber Non-juror v. 70 I cannot look on thee! thy overbearing Insolence confounds me. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vi. xxxii. 119 I see a Bigot, wherever I see a Man over-bearing and positive without knowing why. a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) 441 The prigs are truly not to be endured, for they are..narrow-minded, pedantic, and overbearing. 1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. ix. i. 255 His temper was harsh and severe, his manners haughty and overbearing. 1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. lxiii. 414 He was an effective and somewhat overbearing speaker. 1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxvi. 401 She looked at the young man with a determined, protective look, at once overbearing and very gentle. 1976 Country Life 12 Feb. 346/1 In Albert Herring, Britten took stock characters—pompous mayor, stolid policeman..over-bearing lady of the manor [etc.]. 1997 N. DeMille Plum Island xv. 194 I'm an overbearing, egocentric, and opinionated male chauvinist pig. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1425adj.1639 |
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