单词 | overliver |
释义 | † overlivern. Obsolete. A survivor; a person who has outlived another. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [noun] > survivor overlivera1425 superviver1523 supervivanta1575 outliver1580 remnant1597 relicts1598 surviver1604 survivor1624 survivoressa1711 a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 48 (MED) Patrimes..an ouer lyuer þat leueþ longer þen oþer of hys kyne. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 373 Ovyrlevare after a noþer, Superstes. 1526 in T. Harwood Hist. Lichfield (1806) 494 The said Feoffees, or the over-liver of them. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 375 And if any of them happened to die, the ouer lyuers should doe the same. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 191 To continue for both the kings liues, and the ouer-liuer of them, and a yeare after. 1667 N. Fairfax Let. 18 Feb. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1967) IV. 181 She should have but 2. children. ye other should dy, & yt overliver with her self, should live out of ye City. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.a1425 |
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