† overmaistriev.
Obsolete.
transitive. = overmaster v. 1.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)]
overcomeeOE
forecomec1000
overwieldlOE
masterc1225
overmaistrie1340
overmatcha1375
overpassa1382
surmount1390
to have the fairer (of)c1400
maistriec1400
overmasterc1425
winc1440
overc1485
bestride1526
rixlec1540
overreach1555
control1567
overmate1567
govern1593
to give (a person) the lurch1598
get1600
to gain cope of1614
top1633
to fetch overa1640
down1641
to have the whip hand (of)1680
carberry1692
to cut down1713
to be more than a match for1762
outflank1773
outmaster1799
outgeneral1831
weather1834
best1839
fore-reach1845
to beat a person at his (also her, etc.) own game1849
scoop1850
euchrec1866
bemaster1871
negotiate1888
to do down1900
to get (someone) wetc1926
lick1946
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 15 To viȝte wyþ þe halȝen an his to ouercome and to ouermaistri.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. iv. 176 (MED) Mede ouer-maistrieth lawe and moche treuthe letteth.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. 580 (MED) Whan wisdam and resoun Been ouermaistried with sensualite, Farweel the floures off ther felicite!
?1480 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophres (Caxton) (new ed.) lf. 29 If the witte of a man ouer maistrie not his frailte.
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) vii. 20 To thende that..none euyll temptacions ouer maystrye yow not.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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