单词 | overtrace |
释义 | overtracev. Chiefly poetic and literary. 1. transitive. To trace over; to cover or mark with tracery or tracings. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > represent graphically [verb] > trace over overtrace1826 a1500 Sir Degrevant (Cambr.) (1949) 652 With topyes & [perh. read hur] trechour Ouertrasyd þat tyde. 1826 H. H. Milman Anne Boleyn 108 The..walls Are all o'ertraced by dying hands. a1848 E. Brontë Compl. Wks. (1910) I. 272 Darkness was overtraced on every face. 1908 H. James What Maisie Knew in Novels & Tales xi. xxvi. 188 Nothing more remarkable had taken place..no act of perception less to be overtraced by our rough method. 1921 W. E. Henley With Fan from Rimmel's in Poems 286 Ivory, with lilac silk outspanned, With ruffling black sedately grand, With bloom of eglantine o'ertraced, Go, happy Fan. 1991 T. Hunt tr. R. Jeffers Love & Hate in Coll. Poetry III. 242 He found a match in the desk, dipped its butt in ink, And overtraced the pale pencil-lines. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > traverse a distance or ground runeOE overcomeOE meteOE through-gangOE passc1300 to pass over ——c1300 overpassc1325 tracec1381 travela1393 traverse?a1400 travelc1400 measure?a1425 walkc1450 go1483 journey1531 peragrate1542 trade1548 overspin1553 overtrace1573 tract1579 progress1587 invade1590 waste1590 wear1596 march1606 void1608 recovera1625 expatiate1627 lustrate1721 do1795 slip1817 cover1818 clear1823 track1823 itinerate1830 betravel1852 to roll off1867 1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos x. Ffij b Tarience none he makes, but bridges hie doth ouertrace. 1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos xi. sig. Kkiii When lord Aeneas to the forest wide himself doth speede, And hilles doth ouertrace, and from thick wooddes doth forth proceede. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1500 |
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