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单词 oveward
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ovewardadj.n.

Forms: Old English ufawærd, Old English ufaweard, Old English ufaword, Old English ufeward, Old English ufewyrd (in a late copy), Old English ufweard, Old English ufwerd, Old English ufwurd, Old English–early Middle English ofeweard, Old English–early Middle English ufeweard, Old English–early Middle English ufewerd, late Old English ufæwærd, late Old English ufæweard, late Old English ufwyrd, early Middle English ufeuueard, early Middle English uueward, early Middle English uweard (transmission error), Middle English oueward, Middle English ouwarde, Middle English oward, Middle English owarde.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: < the Germanic base of Old High German oba above (see over adj.) + the Germanic base of -ward suffix. Compare anoveward adv. and prep. Compare also (with slightly different first element: see ovenon adv. and prep.) Old English ufanweard and Old Icelandic ofanverðr.
Obsolete.
Upper, higher; forming the upper part. Also as n.: the upper part. on oveward: see anoveward adv. and prep.
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the world > space > relative position > high position > [adjective] > in higher position
overeOE
ovewardeOE
higherOE
overmorec1350
overhighera1382
overerc1400
upper1467
superior1632
overriding1883
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) i. 29 Forðan ða eagan bioð on ðam lichoman foreweardum & ufeweardum.
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xxvii. 51 Ecce uelum templi scisum est..a summo usque deorsum : heonu waghrahel temples toborsten wæs uel tosliten wæs..from ufawærd wið to nioðaweard.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxx. 264 Fram his hnolle ufewerdan, oð his ilas neoðewerde.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 165 (MED) Þreo siðes steȝh þis holie maiden..on þe steire of fiftene stoples, fro neþewarde to uuewarde.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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