oversoarv.
/ˌəʊvəˈsɔː/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈsɔr/ Chiefly poetic.
transitive. To soar over or above. Chiefly in figurative context.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move through the air [verb (transitive)] > soar in or into > soar beyond
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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vii. 252 As the wise Wild-geese, when they ouer-soar Cilicean Mountes.
1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 7 It over-soared this low and worldly shade.
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 245 My mind o'ersoars The stars.
a1882 J. Thomson Poet. Wks. (1895) II. 347 Memory, which cannot oversoar the deep That yawns between two lives in sombre death.
1903 E. Fawcett Voices & Visions 44 For I am intellect, love, emotion; my realm is vast as the human soul; I oversoar ye and undersweep ye; I comprehend ye and I control.
1970 L. Jeffers My Blackness is Beauty of this Land in S. Henderson Understanding New Black Poetry (1973) iii. 198 My agony rainbowed to ecstasy when my feet oversoared Montgomery's slime.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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