单词 | overgang |
释义 | overgangv. Now Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > move beyond > beyond a limit or bound overgangeOE overstepOE passc1390 transgressa1620 eOE Metres of Boethius xx. 71 Heora ænig oðres ne dorste mearce ofergangan. OE Stowe Psalter xvii. 30 Transgrediar murum : ic ofergange weall. a1250 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Maidstone) (1955) 98 Þanne scal þi bern þi bode ouer-gangen. a1500 Vertewis of Mess in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 192 Þe price of sa mekile land as a man may ourgang quhill the mess is in doinge. 2. transitive. To overpower, conquer, get the better of, trample upon. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [verb (transitive)] > spread over or through (something) overgangOE overflowOE spread?c1335 overspreada1400 overflood1882 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or overwhelm overcomeeOE overgangOE overnimOE overswivec1175 foldc1275 overgoc1275 to bear downc1330 oversetc1330 outrayc1390 overleada1393 overreach?a1425 overwhelmc1425 to whelve overc1440 overruna1475 surprise1474 overpress1489 surbatea1500 overhale1531 overbear1535 overcrow1550 disable1582 surgain1586 overpower1597 overman1609 to come over ——1637 to run down1655 overpower1667 compel1697 to get over ——1784 overget1877 to grab (also take) by the balls1934 OE Riddle 40 10 Mec semninga slæp ofergongeþ, beoð eagan min ofestum betyned. OE Exodus 562 Wile nu gelæstan þæt he lange gehet mid aðsware..þæt ge feonda gehwone forð ofergangað, gesittað sigerice be sæm tweonum. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10228 To werenn hemm wiþþ wiþerr þeod Þatt wollde hemm oferrganngenn. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2587 (MED) Yif he regne þus-gate longe, He Moun us alle ouer-gange. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 5505 (MED) Ioseph kin ouer-ganges [a1400 Fairf. ouer-gas; a1400 Trin. Cambr. ouer gooþ] all, þat to our eldres was a thrall. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 141 Allace! ȝour grace hes done greit wrang, To suffer tyrannis in sic sort, Daylie ȝour liegis till ouergang. ?c1625 in E. Beveridge & J. D. Westwood Fergusson's Sc. Prov. (1924) No. 1022 Might overgangs right. 1634 G. F. Black Cal. Cases Witchcraft Scotl. 14 For work what you can your teeth shall overgang your hands. 1715 A. Pennecuik Curious Coll. Scotish Poems in Geogr., Hist. Descr. Tweeddale App. 94 For fear that Truth should clean ou'r gang them. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 882 If ye gie a woman a' her will Gude faith she'll soon oergang ye. 1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems I. 123 Wha e'er wad thought our dairy wenches, Wad gar their heads o'ergang their hainches. 1863 R. Quinn Heather Lintie (ed. 2) 202 Gag thae was speak tae wrang us, And trip thae wad o'ergang us. 1898 J. Milne Poems in Aberdeenshire Dial. 35 Ill-deedie fowk wud aye owre-gang yo, Though they saw yo failt an' deen. 1964 T. A. Robertson in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. 525/3 [Shetland] If a number of people are carrying peats to a stack-stead the one who is building up the peats has to be pretty active or else ‘he [sc. the stack] wid owergeng’. ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 22132 (MED) Ouerall þar crist was wont to ga, He [sc. Anticrist] þaim sal ouer-gang alsua. 1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xvi. 86 I thinke the holkis ouergangis ȝour ene. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 122 Quha..lattis gude ground..ouirgang wt weidis. a1713 A. Pitcairne Assembly (1722) i. iii. 20 That Place is all o'ergrown with Briars and Thorns, and they'll o'rgang Scotland too. 1832 A. Henderson Proverbs 145 When horns and hair owergang the man, There's little hope o' the creature than. 4. transitive. To go beyond, exceed. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > be great in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] > be greater than in quantity, amount, or degree surmountc1374 passa1387 exceedc1400 to come over ——a1479 surpassa1555 outstrip1579 top1582 outnumber1598 over-reckona1635 turn1716 overgang1737 overspring1801 rise1838 overvault1851 override1867 better1873 1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. (1750) 95 The pains o'ergangs the profit. a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1956) II. 223 Ne'er lat your hope o'ergang your days, For eild and thraldom never stays. 1822 J. Galt Provost xxxv. 254 The outlay I thought as likely to o'ergang the profit. 1873 A. Anderson Song of Labour 77 He's a deil o' a wean—what ava can he mean? Lod, he'll ow'r-gang us a' yet. an' that'll be seen. 1898 Shetland News 7 May in Sc. National Dict. VI. 525/3 Da cost wid owergeng da honour. 1914 Kelso Chron. 6 Feb. in Sc. National Dict. VI. 525/3 Ye shouldna let uncanny greed Owre gang the profit. 1932 A. Horsbøl tr. J. Jakobsen Etymol. Dict. Norn Lang. in Shetland II. 643/2 Owergeng, to exceed the right measure or go beyond bounds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.eOE |
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