† overhowv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To despise, scorn, disdain.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)]
forhowc900
overhowOE
withhuheOE
forhecchec1230
scorna1275
despise1297
spise13..
to set at a pease, at a pie's heel, at a pin's fee1303
to hold, have scorn at, ofc1320
to think scorn ofc1320
to set short by1377
to tell short of1377
to set naught or nought (nothing, not anything) by1390
spitea1400
contemnc1425
nought1440
overlooka1450
mainprizec1450
lightly1451
vilipendc1470
indeign1483
misprize1483
dain?1518
to look down on (also upon)1539
floccipend1548
contempta1555
to take scorn ata1566
embase1577
sdeign1590
disesteem1594
vilify1599
to set lightly, coldly1604
disrepute1611
to hold cheapa1616
avile1616
floccify1623
meprize1633
to think (also believe, etc.) meanly of1642
publican1648
naucify1653
disesteem1659
invalue1673
to set light, at light1718
sneeze1806
sniff1837
derry1896
to hold no brief for1918
OE Blickling Homilies 49 Se þe Godes bebod oferhogaþ, he biþ on hæþenra onlicnesse, & manig deofol on him eardaþ.
lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) vii. 16 Oferhoga hi þonne & adrif hi fram þe.
c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 199 Ne heom þær nefre ne bið isceawed lihtes leome, for þam þe ȝe mine lare on eowre mode oferhoȝoden.
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 1406 An ouer hoheð [a1300 Jesus Oxf. ouer howeþ] þanne lasse.
a1300 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Jesus Oxf.) (1955) 99 (MED) Þanne deþ hit sone þat þe biþ vnyqueme, Ofer-howeþ þin ibod.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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