over-rightadv.prep.
/əʊvəˈrʌɪt/, U.S. /ˌoʊvə(r)ˈraɪt/, Irish English /oʊvə(r)ˈraɪt/, Canadian English /ˌoːvə(r)ˈrəit/ Now English regional (southern), Irish English and Newfoundland.† A. adv.
1. Right across; from one side to the other. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
c1261 ( Bounds (Sawyer 1165) in S. E. Kelly Charters of Chertsey Abbey (2015) 109 From wheles huþe ofer rigte in þene blake wiþge... Of whelegate oferrigte in to Depenbrok.
c1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Coventry) (1973) 844 (MED) Fosse Menyoun is rounde pytte; Of drie sande fulle is hytte; An hundrid cubitis hit is ouerright [L. in latitudine].
1646 H. Mill 2nd Pt. Nights Search xviii. 96 The theife sate close by him, the Cut-purse Jade Sate over-right.
2. overright against: = sense B. Cf. over against (also †again, anent) at over adv. 6b. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > opposite position > [adverb]
anenteOE
theregainsc1330
aforyena1400
overa1400
overthwarta1425
fornent1548
overright against1565
oppositelyc1593
opposite1609
over-right1618
squarely1802
en regard1909
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Aduersum, E regione. Plin., Ouerright agaynst.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 55 Ouir rycht foranents the tounis Aire and Irvine is the Ile of Aran.
B. prep.
Directly opposite to; over against, in front of. Cf. over adv. 6b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > opposite position > [adverb]
anenteOE
theregainsc1330
aforyena1400
overa1400
overthwarta1425
fornent1548
overright against1565
oppositelyc1593
opposite1609
over-right1618
squarely1802
en regard1909
1618 T. D. Destrvction of Iervsalem in Canaans Calamitie sig. B1v And ouer right that goodly famous Cittie, Hung still this dreadfull apparition.
1798 J. Jefferson Let. to J. Boucher 19 Mar. (MS) , [Hampshire words] Over-right for over-against.
1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 39 He lived exactly over-right our house.
1862 W. Barnes Echo in Poems of Rural Life III. 3 About the tow'r an' churchyard wall, Out nearly overright our door.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) You turns into a gate over-right a blacksmith's shop.
1913 T. Hardy Changed Man 137 Now backalong to Newton, and by the time we get overright the pa'son's 'twill be half after twelve.
1957 W. D. Parish & H. Hall Dict. Sussex Dial. 90/2 Over-right, his cottage is over-right the pond.
1970 in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 365/1 Don't be cursing and swearing overright the child!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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