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单词 overmantle
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overmantlev.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈmantl/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈmæn(t)l/
Forms: see over- prefix and mantle v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, mantle v.
Etymology: < over- prefix + mantle v.
Chiefly poetic. Now rare.
transitive. To cover over as with a mantle.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > form or act as covering for
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curea1400
overmantle1591
obduct1623
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obduce1657
cap1735
1591 J. M. Phillippes Venus f. 5v This day the heauens as earst with sable cloudes shal ouer mantled be.
1635 Lieut. Hammond Relation Surv. W. Counties in Camden Misc. (1936) XVI. iii. 97 We live in a glorious peaceable Kingdom and blessed Nation... She is the Idea of true and essentiall delight and felicitie; soe inrich'd and ouermantled with Plenty and Pleasures.
1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imag. ii. 500 in Poems (1772) 170 A sad disguise of care o'ermantling her gay brow.
1827 T. Carlyle State Germ. Lit. in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 336 Flowers and foliage, as of old, are..overmantling its sternest cliffs.
a1856 H. Miller Cruise of Betsey (1859) xiii. 239 The damp bone-strewn floor, overmantled with a still darker crust, like that of a stagnant pool.
1875 F. M. Elliot Italians iii. i. 202 The road from Lucca to Corellia lies at the foot of lofty mountains, over-mantled by chestnut-forests.
1903 E. Fawcett Voices & Visions 43 As heaven o'ermantles its moods of mist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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