overturen.

Brit.

/ˈəʊvətjʊə/,

/ˈəʊvətʃ(ʊ)ə/, U.S.

/ˈoʊvərˌtʃʊ(ə)r/,

/ˈoʊvərˌtʃər/

Forms: Middle English overtuer, Middle English 1700s ouverture, Middle English–1600s ouerture, Middle English–1600s overtur, Middle English– overture, 1500s overtier, 1600s offertur; Scottish pre-1700 ouerture, pre-1700 ouuerture, pre-1700 ouvertur, pre-1700 ouverture, pre-1700 overter, pre-1700 overtor, pre-1700 overtuir, pre-1700 overtur, pre-1700 ovirtour, pre-1700 owertour, pre-1700 1700s overtour, pre-1700 1700s– overture, 1700s overturr.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French overture, ouverture.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman overture and Middle French, French ouverture aperture, opening (12th cent. in Old French as uverture ), action of opening (late 13th cent.), beginning, commencement (1581), introduction or prelude to a ballet (1640), negotiations (1643), orchestral introduction to an opera (1691) < ouvert overt adj. + -ure -ure suffix¹, perhaps after classical Latin apertūra aperture n. Compare Old Occitan ubertura (1322), obertura, Catalan obertura (13th cent.).In sense 7 the French word has been borrowed into Italian (ouverture , 1825), but the usual Italian term is sinfonia (see sinfonia n. 1). In sense 8 perhaps arising from association with overturn v., although perhaps compare evert v. and -ure suffix¹. N.E.D. (1904) gives only the pronunciation (ō^u·vəɹtiuɹ) /ˈəʊvətj(ʊ)ə(r)/.

I. An opening and related senses.

†1.

a. An aperture, a hole, an opening; an orifice. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun]

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thirla900

eyeOE

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overturec1400

overta1425

wideness?c1425

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vent1594

apertion1599

ferme1612

notch1615

sluice1648

gape1658

aperture1661

want1664

door1665

hiulcitya1681

to pass through the eye of a needle (also a needle's eye)1720

vista1727

light1776

ope1832

lacuna1872

doughnut hole1886

c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 218 Vche a hemme, At honde, at sydez, at ouerture.

?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 105 (MED) Þu moste make þine ouerture in þe place þat is moste dependaunt & þer þe skynne is moste þinne.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 239 Men wyche haue..throgh al the body the ouertures large, that clerkys callyth Pores.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lvi^v Diuers ouertures and holes were made vnder the foundacion by the pyoners.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 49 [This] will make an overture and way unto the minde of a yoong ladde.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escoutilles,..th' ouertures, or trap doores, whereat things are let downe into the hold.

1643 J. Milton Soveraigne Salve 31 Deluges of sinne breake in at this so great an overture of the faith.

?1718 A. Pope Corr. (1956) I. 510 The Kitchen..being one vast Vault to the Top of the House; where one overture serves to let out the smoak and let in the light.

1727 Country-post in J. Swift et al. Misc. II. 287 To possess them-se[l]ves of the two Ouvertures of the said Fort.

1749 Apol. Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 19 The false Belly, in which the Female [Opossum] carries her Young... In the hinder Part of it is an Overture big enough for a small Hand to pass.

1891 Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1889–90 621 An unsymmetrical face, the nasal overture of a pheleiform type, and lemurian attachment of the under jaw.

b. An open or exposed place. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > open (level) land

fieldeOE

champaignc1420

champian1570

overture1579

campagnaa1664

plain1755

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. July 28 The wastefull hylls vnto his threate Is a playne ouerture [gloss. an open place].

2. An approach or proposal, originally of a formal nature, made to someone with the aim of opening negotiations or establishing a relationship. Frequently in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > terms of agreement > negotiating or making terms

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treatment1828

haggle1829

coming to terms1843

1427 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1834) III. 241 (MED) My sayd lordes..reherced unto him..certaine answeres þe whiche my said lord of Gloucester had yeven afore unto certayne overtures and articles.

1433 Rolls of Parl. IV. 425/1 [He] made hem yerinne diverse faire overtures and offris.

1453 Duke of Norfolk's Petition in Paston Lett. (1904) II. 292 In case ye make not to me ouverture of justice upon the seyd caas.

1501 King Henry VII Let. in J. Gairdner Lett. Reigns of Richard III & Henry VII (1861) I. 154 The whiche overture..[was] for the renovelling of the said amitie.

1560 in Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1898) I. 541 This my ouverture proceidit of no uther intent.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 41 Cap. E. I heare there is an ouerture of peace. Cap. G. Nay, I assure you a peace concluded.

a1639 D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 101 Any time these five years there have been overtures of marriage made unto him.

1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. (ed. 2) II. 178 This Spruce, Affected, not Unhandsome Lawyer, had made the Overture of his fair Person to Corinna.

1752 H. Fielding Amelia IV. xi. iii. 139 She was not one of those backward and delicate Ladies, who can die rather than make the first Overture.

a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) II. xv. 316 After coming eagerly forward on the first overture of a marriage between the families,..he had..been constrained to acknowledge himself incapable of giving the young people even a decent support.

1885 Law Times Rep. 52 648/1 They had had overtures from several persons to purchase..the trust property.

1959 F. Astaire Steps in Time (1960) xx. 226 I was still lashed tightly to my Packard Hour radio show for several more months and made overtures to them about releasing me from my coming options.

1989 Forbes 20 Mar. 15/1 Toussie's group has made friendly overtures to the company, offering to keep present management in place if an acquisition happened.

†3. The opening up or revelation of a matter; a disclosure, a declaration. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun]

discoveringa1375

nakeninga1382

bewrayingc1386

detection1471

discoverture?1473

revelationc1485

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disclose1548

overture1548

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discovery1567

unripping1568

revealment1576

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retection1581

unmaskinga1586

unclasping?1592

denudation1593

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uncovering1598

detecting1604

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divulgement1632

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unfolding1646

revealinga1649

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development1760

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displayment1801

divulgence1851

revelationism1854

unbosoming1910

uncovery1963

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxxiiii The kyng had knowledge of the chief Capitaynes of this tumulte by the ouerture of hys espyes.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xiv. 87 It was he that made the ouerture of thy treasons to vs.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 4 Upon the prime overture of his message at the French Court, he found so ready and fluent an inclination in king Lewes.

a. Scottish. A proposal for consideration by a legislative body; spec. a bill placed before the Scottish Parliament or Convention of the Estates for enactment.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > [noun] > bill > general types of

overture1561

bill of review1623

transmiss1764

personal bill1844

remanet1845

private member's bill1872

counter-bill1880

Bill of Rights1892

proposition1911

1561 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 193 It wes thocht gude and expedient be hir Hienis that ane Generall Conventioun suld be appointit the xv day of December instant,..and be the avyise of the hale, ane ressonable overture maid and ordoure takin for..quieting of the hale cuntre.

1599 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1816) IV. 181/2 With poware to the saidis commissioneris to refuis all overtouris to be presentit to thame thairanent.

1641 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1870) V. 625 Agreed by the whole estates that when an overture is proposed, every estate have 24 hours to advise the same before he be urged to answer thereto.

1707 Vulpone 2 In the first Session of this present Parliament in 1703..the E[arl of Marchmont]..gave in an Overture (as they call it) by way of Act, for Settling the Succession upon the foot of Limitations.

1714 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) II. 617 Considering the overtoures made by the commissioner for Glasgow..wherby a new rule might be established for setling the tax roll of the Royal burrowes in tyme comeing.

1905 C. S. Terry Sc. Parl. 143 The Orders [of 1641] directed that every overture presented to the House should be communicated to be considered separately and, as it were, in Committee.

1924 R. S. Rait Parl. Scotl. 433 Until 1703, the business of a committee was to translate an overture into the technical forms of a draft act, and, immediately after the disuse of committees, ‘Overtures in form of acts’ became more frequent than before.

1998 Press Assoc. (Nexis) 6 Jan. ‘Overtures’—the stage of a bill after the White Paper has been published, but before it becomes law - should go out to the public for consultation and be subsequently amended before becoming an Act of Parliament.

b. Christian Church. A formal motion proposing or calling for legislation, presented to the supreme court of a Presbyterian Church (originally to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland).In current use, an overture is a proposal to make a new general law for the Church or to repeal an old one; to declare the law; to enjoin the observance of former enactments; or generally to take any measure falling within the legislative or executive functions of the Assembly. Such a proposal must first be made in an inferior court (presbytery or synod), and, if there adopted, is transmitted by that court as its overture to the supreme court. If adopted by the supreme court as an overture, it is submitted to the various presbyteries for approval by them or a majority of them before it can be passed as an act.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > legal process > [noun] > overture

overture1576

1576 33rd Gen. Assembly in A. Peterkin Bk. Universall Kirk Scotl. (1839) 155 Brethren appointed to make ane overture of the policie and jurisdiction of the Kirk.

a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) ix. 143 Mr. Livingstone proponed an overture.

1723 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 52 Some very good overtures, if put in practice, against Popery, were passed, and Synod-books were taken in.

1737 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 33) ii. iii. 358 Matters of great weight that bind the whole Church [of Scotland] are first brought in by way of overtures, and then debated in the house.

1831 J. H. Rice Let. 4 Mar. in W. H. Foote Sketches Virginia (1855) 2nd Ser. 436 Project of an overture to be submitted to the next General Assembly. ‘The Presbyterian Church in the United States..have solemnly recognized [etc.].’

1847 Mem. Union of Secession & Relief Churches 7 The overture proposed only intercourse with the Relief as a sister Church.

1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 273 The form in which any legislative measure is initiated in the General Assembly is ‘an overture’.

1904 W. Mair Digest Church Laws 60 Overtures of vague indefinite proposals find no favour, and are apt to be rejected, although their aim may seem to be good.

1927 D. Carswell Brother Scots x ‘Overture’..means a formal request by a presbytery that the General Assembly shall take cognisance of some matter and proceed to appropriate action.

†5. A beginning or commencement; esp. a formal opening of proceedings; a first indication or hint of something. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun]

ordeOE

thresholdeOE

frumthc950

anginOE

frumeOE

worthOE

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kick-off1875

off-go1886

off1896

get-go1960

lift-off1967

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres ii. xxxv. sig. H4 If the least imagind ouerture But of conceiud reuolt men once espie.

1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 78 Let vs therefore take a briefe view of the seuerall impediments which arose in euery Kinges time, since the first ouerture of the Conquest.

a1641 J. Finett Philoxenis (1656) 154 The next day being that of the overture of parliament.

1658 Bp. J. Taylor Let. 21 June in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 5 If ever you have noted or heard of any overtures of unkindnesse betweene them.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The overture of the jubilee, is a general procession, etc.

†6. A favourable situation or opportunity. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > [noun]

chance1297

occasiona1382

leisurec1386

opportunitya1387

advantage1487

portunity1516

in the nick1565

mean1592

vantage?1592

occasionet1593

overture1610

hinta1616

largeness1625

convenience1679

tid1721

opening1752

offer1831

slant1837

show1842

showing1852

show-up1883

window of opportunity1942

op1978

1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr iv. 128 To vnderstand..where any ouerture is giuen for the Popes aduantage.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 10 They..escaped out of prison, being all prisoners of great moment, whose inlargement gaue apparant ouerture to ensuing rebellion.

1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 1st Pt. ii. 79 He was casting about for overtures, how to compass what he so earnestly desired.

1768 Woman of Honor III. 65 If I had seen the least glimpse of an overture of succeeding with the invincible Clara.

a. Music. An orchestral piece of varying form and dimensions, forming the opening or introduction to an opera, oratorio, or other extended composition, and often containing themes from the body of the work or otherwise indicating the character of it. Also: a similar orchestral piece, usually of descriptive or programmatic character, intended for independent performance; = concert overture n. at concert n. Compounds 2.The term originally (in the 17th cent.) denoted a piece in two or more sections performed as the introduction to a ballet, opera, etc. Outside the dramatic context, it came to be applied first to a similar binary or ternary movement opening a suite of stylized dance or character pieces (whether orchestral or, later, for a solo instrument), then to such a suite in its entirety. For a while from the later 18th cent., the term was applied to multi-movement orchestral works of the type now called symphonies. These earlier usages retain some currency in historical contexts.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > overture

overture1674

entrée1718

last music1741

sinfonia1773

concert overture1826

1674 T. Shadwell Shakespeare's Tempest (rev. ed.) sig. B (stage direction) While the Overture is playing, the Curtain rises.

1686 London Gaz. No. 2119/4 Several Overtures or Sonatta's, containing Variety of Humors, as Grave Aires, Minuetts, Borees, &c.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Overture,..also a Flourish of Musick, before the Scenes are open'd in a Play-house, especially before the beginning of an Opera.

1797 Monthly Mag. 3 149 The overture, which is in the favourite overture key, D major, is bold and dashing.

1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xi. 145 The..overwhelming pathos of the tones affected Dr. Grey much as the tremolo-stop in some organ-overture in a dimly-lighted cathedral.

1880 H. J. Lincoln in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 618 Overture.., i.e. Opening. This term was originally applied to the instrumental prelude to an opera, its first important development being due to Lulli, as exemplified in his..French operas and ballets, dating from 1672 to 1686.

1944 D. Tovey Chamber Music i. 9 The French overture..after beginning like a sonata da chiesa, naturally develops the forms of the sonata da camera.

1987 E. Prager Clea & Zeus Divorce (1988) i. 9 The orchestra had started the overture.

2001 Brit. Bandsman 8 Sept. 23/2 The overture..involves a virtuoso solo for Williams Fairey's principal trombone.

b. figurative.

ΚΠ

1802 J. Wolcot Ld. Belgrave in Wks. (1812) IV. 523 Soon as the Winds begin to sing, Or rather play their overture to thunder.

1847 W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) IV. 18 Unless you come up soon, you will miss the overture of the season—the first sweet notes of the year.

1936 L. MacNeice tr. Aeschylus Agamemnon 15 For both the Greeks and Trojans an overture of breaking spears.

1977 A. Hunter Gently Instrumental xii. 168 ‘Tell me what he told you.’.. ‘Skipping the overture and first act, he told me he followed Virtue to the cottage.’

c. In extended use: the opening or introductory part of a poem.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > opening or introduction

overture1869

incipit1897

1869 A. C. Swinburne in S. T. Coleridge Christabel Introd. p. xvii The..verses headed ‘Tears in Solitude’—exquisite as is the overture, faultless in tone and colour, and worthy of a better sequel.

1881 G. Saintsbury Dryden 98 Dryden's overtures are very generally among the happiest parts of his poems.

1984 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 19 Apr. 22 The ‘Last Poems’..begins rather than ends with ‘Under Ben Bulben’, which, according to Bradford, Yeats intended as an overture rather than a recapitulation.

II. Overthrow and related senses.

†8. Overturning, overthrow; an instance of this. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > overthrow of a person, institution, belief, etc.

fallOE

confusionc1290

subversiona1325

overthrowingc1330

overturninga1398

downcasta1400

wrackc1400

downcastingc1425

eversionc1425

profligationc1475

demolitionc1550

overturec1555

wreck1577

overturnc1592

racking?1689

upsetting1827

subversal1843

demolishment1884

c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. D3^v Speke of grasyng and husbandry no man knoweth mo shires than he, no man knoweth better where to rayse a gayn: and how the abusis and ouerture of pricis might bee redressed.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 27 Consider, howe his threats were after verified in Ierusalems ouerture.

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Ouerture, an ouerturning, a sudden change.

1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix 2 The very fatall plagues, and ouertures of those States and Kingdomes where they are once tollerated.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

overturev.

Brit.

/ˈəʊvətjʊə/,

/ˈəʊvətʃ(ʊ)ə/, U.S.

/ˈoʊvərˌtʃʊ(ə)r/,

/ˈoʊvərˌtʃər/

Forms: 1600s– overture; Scottish pre-1700 1700s overtour, pre-1700 1700s overtur, pre-1700 1700s– overture.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: overture n.

Etymology: < overture n.

1. Chiefly Christian Church.

a. transitive. To present as an overture to a formal assembly, spec. to the supreme court of a Presbyterian Church (originally to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland). Frequently in passive with anticipatory it as subject and that-clause.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > legal process > [verb (transitive)] > present overture > bring forward as overture

overture1655

1655 in W. Cramond Church of Aberdour (1896) 26 It is overtured that some from the presbytery may be appointed to confer [etc.].

1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 100 It had become you rather, who would be accounted a kindly child of the Church of Scotland, to have overtured a way how the Church Patrimony..may be recovered from the Harpyes who devoure it.

1715 R. Wodrow Let. 12 May (1843) II. 36 The sub-committee overtured the form of an act anent it.

1726 R. Wodrow Let. 6 May (1843) III. 241 We overtured that either the act might be repealed or execute.

1838 Biblical Repertory July 479 In 1795, a request was overtured that the synods of Virginia and the Carolinas have liberty to direct their presbyteries to ordain such candidates as they may judge necessary.

1869 Putnam's Mag. July 116/1 The measure is now to be ‘overtured’ to the different Presbyteries.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 3 Mar. 4/3 It is therefore hereby humbly overtured to the Very Reverend the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of England..to take the premises into consideration.

1949 Scotsman 2 Feb. in Sc. National Dict. VI. 520/2 It is humbly overtured that the Assembly take the whole matter of the administration of the Sacrament of Baptism into consideration.

b. transitive. To present or transmit an overture to (a legislative assembly, spec. the supreme court of a Presbyterian Church); to approach with an overture.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > petition > present (a petition)

to put up1384

porrectc1425

to put it to a person1664

overturea1856

society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > legal process > [verb (transitive)] > present overture

overturea1856

a1856 R. Webster Hist. Presbyterian Church (1857) 356 He overtured the presbytery to suffer no person to be inducted into the eldership.

1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 273 A motion is made in a presbytery ‘to overture’ the General Assembly.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 17 June 2/1 The Free Presbytery of Skye ‘overtured’ the General Assembly to take into its serious consideration ‘the views of man's origin propounded by Professor Drummond in his work on the “Ascent of Man”.’

1997 G. L. Sittser Cautious Patriotism ix. 164 In 1940 the Box Butte presbytery overtured the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, United States of America.

2. gen.

a. transitive. To put forward (something) as a suggestion or proposal. Also intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (transitive)] > propose

proffera1375

movea1382

adjustc1450

advance1509

to make words1645

offer1660

overturea1665

volunteer1818

a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) xix. 548 He shall not only want one of the greatest Arguments and Motives to perswade men and women unto waies that are excellent, but also overture such a thing which would be a snare and temptation to fight low.

1863 H. W. Beecher Freedom & War 438 There are many honest men who are overturing backwards and forwards, and trying to bring about a friendly adjustment of the case.

1880 S. Smith in Daily News 7 Apr. 3/3 A prominent Tory overtured to a leading Liberal that the party of the latter need not further trouble themselves with precautions against Tory opposition.

1959 C. M. Wilson Bodacious Ozarks i. 22 Every time my grandfather sent or overtured to send money or goods, his brother Greene spurned the would-be gifts.

1975 Jrnl. Conflict Resol. 19 495 The lowering or maintaining of one's own missile level to or at a position at least at or below the level of the other player (who overtured) in the preceding game.

1998 M. Wyke Parchments of Gender viii. 200 The conjugal image of Antoninus and Faustina..that we have just overtured.

b. transitive. To offer or propose to (someone). rare.

ΚΠ

1912 F. J. Bliss Relig. of Mod. Syria & Palestine Lect. vii. 334 A committee of the Gregorian churches of Constantinople has overtured the head of the church, the Patriarch of Etchmizian, to institute a council for church reform.

3. transitive. To introduce with, or as with, a musical overture; to prelude. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform (music) [verb (transitive)] > perform specific types of music

jig1598

serenade1672

prelude1795

shivaree1805

dirge1826

ran-tan1866

overture1870

threnody1893

ragtime1908

rag1914

blow1949

1870 J. Hamilton Moses vii. 122 Needing no thunder nor trumpet to overture His discourse and astonish His audience.

1995 Independent (Nexis) 10 Mar. 21 The music which overtured Shampoo's performance at London's Hanover Grand was an astute choice.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	overture
释义	overturen. Brit. /ˈəʊvətjʊə/, /ˈəʊvətʃ(ʊ)ə/, U.S. /ˈoʊvərˌtʃʊ(ə)r/, /ˈoʊvərˌtʃər/ Forms: Middle English overtuer, Middle English 1700s ouverture, Middle English–1600s ouerture, Middle English–1600s overtur, Middle English– overture, 1500s overtier, 1600s offertur; Scottish pre-1700 ouerture, pre-1700 ouuerture, pre-1700 ouvertur, pre-1700 ouverture, pre-1700 overter, pre-1700 overtor, pre-1700 overtuir, pre-1700 overtur, pre-1700 ovirtour, pre-1700 owertour, pre-1700 1700s overtour, pre-1700 1700s– overture, 1700s overturr. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French overture, ouverture. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman overture and Middle French, French ouverture aperture, opening (12th cent. in Old French as uverture ), action of opening (late 13th cent.), beginning, commencement (1581), introduction or prelude to a ballet (1640), negotiations (1643), orchestral introduction to an opera (1691) < ouvert overt adj. + -ure -ure suffix¹, perhaps after classical Latin apertūra aperture n. Compare Old Occitan ubertura (1322), obertura, Catalan obertura (13th cent.).In sense 7 the French word has been borrowed into Italian (ouverture , 1825), but the usual Italian term is sinfonia (see sinfonia n. 1). In sense 8 perhaps arising from association with overturn v., although perhaps compare evert v. and -ure suffix¹. N.E.D. (1904) gives only the pronunciation (ō^u·vəɹtiuɹ) /ˈəʊvətj(ʊ)ə(r)/. I. An opening and related senses. †1. a. An aperture, a hole, an opening; an orifice. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] holec725 thirla900 eyeOE opena1200 opening?c1225 overturec1400 overta1425 wideness?c1425 howe1487 hiatus1563 vent1594 apertion1599 ferme1612 notch1615 sluice1648 gape1658 aperture1661 want1664 door1665 hiulcitya1681 to pass through the eye of a needle (also a needle's eye)1720 vista1727 light1776 ope1832 lacuna1872 doughnut hole1886 c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 218 Vche a hemme, At honde, at sydez, at ouerture. ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 105 (MED) Þu moste make þine ouerture in þe place þat is moste dependaunt & þer þe skynne is moste þinne. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 239 Men wyche haue..throgh al the body the ouertures large, that clerkys callyth Pores. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lvi^v Diuers ouertures and holes were made vnder the foundacion by the pyoners. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 49 [This] will make an overture and way unto the minde of a yoong ladde. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escoutilles,..th' ouertures, or trap doores, whereat things are let downe into the hold. 1643 J. Milton Soveraigne Salve 31 Deluges of sinne breake in at this so great an overture of the faith. ?1718 A. Pope Corr. (1956) I. 510 The Kitchen..being one vast Vault to the Top of the House; where one overture serves to let out the smoak and let in the light. 1727 Country-post in J. Swift et al. Misc. II. 287 To possess them-se[l]ves of the two Ouvertures of the said Fort. 1749 Apol. Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 19 The false Belly, in which the Female [Opossum] carries her Young... In the hinder Part of it is an Overture big enough for a small Hand to pass. 1891 Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1889–90 621 An unsymmetrical face, the nasal overture of a pheleiform type, and lemurian attachment of the under jaw. b. An open or exposed place. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > open (level) land fieldeOE champaignc1420 champian1570 overture1579 campagnaa1664 plain1755 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. July 28 The wastefull hylls vnto his threate Is a playne ouerture [gloss. an open place]. 2. An approach or proposal, originally of a formal nature, made to someone with the aim of opening negotiations or establishing a relationship. Frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > terms of agreement > negotiating or making terms bargain1330 treatyc1405 overture1427 chafferingc1449 treatingc1450 entreat1485 patising1530 practice1540 articulating1562 capitulation1569 entreatance1574 tractation1600 interdealing1611 negotiation1614 tractate1618 haggling1632 traffickinga1649 bargaining1669 conditioning1680 transacting1686 higgling1700 stipulation1792 treatment1828 haggle1829 coming to terms1843 1427 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1834) III. 241 (MED) My sayd lordes..reherced unto him..certaine answeres þe whiche my said lord of Gloucester had yeven afore unto certayne overtures and articles. 1433 Rolls of Parl. IV. 425/1 [He] made hem yerinne diverse faire overtures and offris. 1453 Duke of Norfolk's Petition in Paston Lett. (1904) II. 292 In case ye make not to me ouverture of justice upon the seyd caas. 1501 King Henry VII Let. in J. Gairdner Lett. Reigns of Richard III & Henry VII (1861) I. 154 The whiche overture..[was] for the renovelling of the said amitie. 1560 in Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1898) I. 541 This my ouverture proceidit of no uther intent. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 41 Cap. E. I heare there is an ouerture of peace. Cap. G. Nay, I assure you a peace concluded. a1639 D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 101 Any time these five years there have been overtures of marriage made unto him. 1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. (ed. 2) II. 178 This Spruce, Affected, not Unhandsome Lawyer, had made the Overture of his fair Person to Corinna. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia IV. xi. iii. 139 She was not one of those backward and delicate Ladies, who can die rather than make the first Overture. a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) II. xv. 316 After coming eagerly forward on the first overture of a marriage between the families,..he had..been constrained to acknowledge himself incapable of giving the young people even a decent support. View more context for this quotation 1885 Law Times Rep. 52 648/1 They had had overtures from several persons to purchase..the trust property. 1959 F. Astaire Steps in Time (1960) xx. 226 I was still lashed tightly to my Packard Hour radio show for several more months and made overtures to them about releasing me from my coming options. 1989 Forbes 20 Mar. 15/1 Toussie's group has made friendly overtures to the company, offering to keep present management in place if an acquisition happened. †3. The opening up or revelation of a matter; a disclosure, a declaration. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun] discoveringa1375 nakeninga1382 bewrayingc1386 detection1471 discoverture?1473 revelationc1485 disclosinga1513 disclosurea1525 disclose1548 overture1548 patefaction1553 displaying1556 discovery1567 unripping1568 revealment1576 discoverment1578 retection1581 unmaskinga1586 unclasping?1592 denudation1593 untrussing1597 uncovering1598 detecting1604 divulging1604 divulgation1610 unvizardinga1628 exposinga1631 divulgement1632 unbowellinga1639 unfolding1646 revealinga1649 unrolling1648 pre-discovery1653 discoverance1664 unshelling1670 development1760 unveilinga1774 disclosal1786 displayment1801 divulgence1851 revelationism1854 unbosoming1910 uncovery1963 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxxiiii The kyng had knowledge of the chief Capitaynes of this tumulte by the ouerture of hys espyes. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xiv. 87 It was he that made the ouerture of thy treasons to vs. View more context for this quotation 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 4 Upon the prime overture of his message at the French Court, he found so ready and fluent an inclination in king Lewes. 4. a. Scottish. A proposal for consideration by a legislative body; spec. a bill placed before the Scottish Parliament or Convention of the Estates for enactment. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > bill > general types of overture1561 bill of review1623 transmiss1764 personal bill1844 remanet1845 private member's bill1872 counter-bill1880 Bill of Rights1892 proposition1911 1561 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 193 It wes thocht gude and expedient be hir Hienis that ane Generall Conventioun suld be appointit the xv day of December instant,..and be the avyise of the hale, ane ressonable overture maid and ordoure takin for..quieting of the hale cuntre. 1599 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1816) IV. 181/2 With poware to the saidis commissioneris to refuis all overtouris to be presentit to thame thairanent. 1641 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1870) V. 625 Agreed by the whole estates that when an overture is proposed, every estate have 24 hours to advise the same before he be urged to answer thereto. 1707 Vulpone 2 In the first Session of this present Parliament in 1703..the E[arl of Marchmont]..gave in an Overture (as they call it) by way of Act, for Settling the Succession upon the foot of Limitations. 1714 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) II. 617 Considering the overtoures made by the commissioner for Glasgow..wherby a new rule might be established for setling the tax roll of the Royal burrowes in tyme comeing. 1905 C. S. Terry Sc. Parl. 143 The Orders [of 1641] directed that every overture presented to the House should be communicated to be considered separately and, as it were, in Committee. 1924 R. S. Rait Parl. Scotl. 433 Until 1703, the business of a committee was to translate an overture into the technical forms of a draft act, and, immediately after the disuse of committees, ‘Overtures in form of acts’ became more frequent than before. 1998 Press Assoc. (Nexis) 6 Jan. ‘Overtures’—the stage of a bill after the White Paper has been published, but before it becomes law - should go out to the public for consultation and be subsequently amended before becoming an Act of Parliament. b. Christian Church. A formal motion proposing or calling for legislation, presented to the supreme court of a Presbyterian Church (originally to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland).In current use, an overture is a proposal to make a new general law for the Church or to repeal an old one; to declare the law; to enjoin the observance of former enactments; or generally to take any measure falling within the legislative or executive functions of the Assembly. Such a proposal must first be made in an inferior court (presbytery or synod), and, if there adopted, is transmitted by that court as its overture to the supreme court. If adopted by the supreme court as an overture, it is submitted to the various presbyteries for approval by them or a majority of them before it can be passed as an act. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > legal process > [noun] > overture overture1576 1576 33rd Gen. Assembly in A. Peterkin Bk. Universall Kirk Scotl. (1839) 155 Brethren appointed to make ane overture of the policie and jurisdiction of the Kirk. a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) ix. 143 Mr. Livingstone proponed an overture. 1723 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 52 Some very good overtures, if put in practice, against Popery, were passed, and Synod-books were taken in. 1737 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 33) ii. iii. 358 Matters of great weight that bind the whole Church [of Scotland] are first brought in by way of overtures, and then debated in the house. 1831 J. H. Rice Let. 4 Mar. in W. H. Foote Sketches Virginia (1855) 2nd Ser. 436 Project of an overture to be submitted to the next General Assembly. ‘The Presbyterian Church in the United States..have solemnly recognized [etc.].’ 1847 Mem. Union of Secession & Relief Churches 7 The overture proposed only intercourse with the Relief as a sister Church. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 273 The form in which any legislative measure is initiated in the General Assembly is ‘an overture’. 1904 W. Mair Digest Church Laws 60 Overtures of vague indefinite proposals find no favour, and are apt to be rejected, although their aim may seem to be good. 1927 D. Carswell Brother Scots x ‘Overture’..means a formal request by a presbytery that the General Assembly shall take cognisance of some matter and proceed to appropriate action. †5. A beginning or commencement; esp. a formal opening of proceedings; a first indication or hint of something. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] ordeOE thresholdeOE frumthc950 anginOE frumeOE worthOE beginninga1225 springc1225 springc1225 commencementc1250 ginninga1300 comsingc1325 entryc1330 aginning1340 alphac1384 incomea1400 formec1400 ingressc1420 birtha1425 principlea1449 comsementa1450 resultancec1450 inition1463 inceptiona1483 entering1526 originala1529 inchoation1530 opening1531 starting1541 principium1550 entrance1553 onset1561 rise1589 begin1590 ingate1591 overture1595 budding1601 initiationa1607 starting off1616 dawninga1631 dawn1633 impriminga1639 start1644 fall1647 initial1656 outset1664 outsettinga1698 going off1714 offsetting1782 offset1791 commence1794 aurora1806 incipiency1817 set-out1821 set-in1826 throw-off1828 go-off1830 outstart1844 start1857 incipience1864 oncome1865 kick-off1875 off-go1886 off1896 get-go1960 lift-off1967 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres ii. xxxv. sig. H4 If the least imagind ouerture But of conceiud reuolt men once espie. 1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 78 Let vs therefore take a briefe view of the seuerall impediments which arose in euery Kinges time, since the first ouerture of the Conquest. a1641 J. Finett Philoxenis (1656) 154 The next day being that of the overture of parliament. 1658 Bp. J. Taylor Let. 21 June in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 5 If ever you have noted or heard of any overtures of unkindnesse betweene them. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The overture of the jubilee, is a general procession, etc. †6. A favourable situation or opportunity. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > [noun] chance1297 occasiona1382 leisurec1386 opportunitya1387 advantage1487 portunity1516 in the nick1565 mean1592 vantage?1592 occasionet1593 overture1610 hinta1616 largeness1625 convenience1679 tid1721 opening1752 offer1831 slant1837 show1842 showing1852 show-up1883 window of opportunity1942 op1978 1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr iv. 128 To vnderstand..where any ouerture is giuen for the Popes aduantage. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 10 They..escaped out of prison, being all prisoners of great moment, whose inlargement gaue apparant ouerture to ensuing rebellion. 1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 1st Pt. ii. 79 He was casting about for overtures, how to compass what he so earnestly desired. 1768 Woman of Honor III. 65 If I had seen the least glimpse of an overture of succeeding with the invincible Clara. 7. a. Music. An orchestral piece of varying form and dimensions, forming the opening or introduction to an opera, oratorio, or other extended composition, and often containing themes from the body of the work or otherwise indicating the character of it. Also: a similar orchestral piece, usually of descriptive or programmatic character, intended for independent performance; = concert overture n. at concert n. Compounds 2.The term originally (in the 17th cent.) denoted a piece in two or more sections performed as the introduction to a ballet, opera, etc. Outside the dramatic context, it came to be applied first to a similar binary or ternary movement opening a suite of stylized dance or character pieces (whether orchestral or, later, for a solo instrument), then to such a suite in its entirety. For a while from the later 18th cent., the term was applied to multi-movement orchestral works of the type now called symphonies. These earlier usages retain some currency in historical contexts. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > overture overture1674 entrée1718 last music1741 sinfonia1773 concert overture1826 1674 T. Shadwell Shakespeare's Tempest (rev. ed.) sig. B (stage direction) While the Overture is playing, the Curtain rises. 1686 London Gaz. No. 2119/4 Several Overtures or Sonatta's, containing Variety of Humors, as Grave Aires, Minuetts, Borees, &c. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Overture,..also a Flourish of Musick, before the Scenes are open'd in a Play-house, especially before the beginning of an Opera. 1797 Monthly Mag. 3 149 The overture, which is in the favourite overture key, D major, is bold and dashing. 1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xi. 145 The..overwhelming pathos of the tones affected Dr. Grey much as the tremolo-stop in some organ-overture in a dimly-lighted cathedral. 1880 H. J. Lincoln in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 618 Overture.., i.e. Opening. This term was originally applied to the instrumental prelude to an opera, its first important development being due to Lulli, as exemplified in his..French operas and ballets, dating from 1672 to 1686. 1944 D. Tovey Chamber Music i. 9 The French overture..after beginning like a sonata da chiesa, naturally develops the forms of the sonata da camera. 1987 E. Prager Clea & Zeus Divorce (1988) i. 9 The orchestra had started the overture. 2001 Brit. Bandsman 8 Sept. 23/2 The overture..involves a virtuoso solo for Williams Fairey's principal trombone. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1802 J. Wolcot Ld. Belgrave in Wks. (1812) IV. 523 Soon as the Winds begin to sing, Or rather play their overture to thunder. 1847 W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) IV. 18 Unless you come up soon, you will miss the overture of the season—the first sweet notes of the year. 1936 L. MacNeice tr. Aeschylus Agamemnon 15 For both the Greeks and Trojans an overture of breaking spears. 1977 A. Hunter Gently Instrumental xii. 168 ‘Tell me what he told you.’.. ‘Skipping the overture and first act, he told me he followed Virtue to the cottage.’ c. In extended use: the opening or introductory part of a poem. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > opening or introduction overture1869 incipit1897 1869 A. C. Swinburne in S. T. Coleridge Christabel Introd. p. xvii The..verses headed ‘Tears in Solitude’—exquisite as is the overture, faultless in tone and colour, and worthy of a better sequel. 1881 G. Saintsbury Dryden 98 Dryden's overtures are very generally among the happiest parts of his poems. 1984 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 19 Apr. 22 The ‘Last Poems’..begins rather than ends with ‘Under Ben Bulben’, which, according to Bradford, Yeats intended as an overture rather than a recapitulation. II. Overthrow and related senses. †8. Overturning, overthrow; an instance of this. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > overthrow of a person, institution, belief, etc. fallOE confusionc1290 subversiona1325 overthrowingc1330 overturninga1398 downcasta1400 wrackc1400 downcastingc1425 eversionc1425 profligationc1475 demolitionc1550 overturec1555 wreck1577 overturnc1592 racking?1689 upsetting1827 subversal1843 demolishment1884 c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. D3^v Speke of grasyng and husbandry no man knoweth mo shires than he, no man knoweth better where to rayse a gayn: and how the abusis and ouerture of pricis might bee redressed. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 27 Consider, howe his threats were after verified in Ierusalems ouerture. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Ouerture, an ouerturning, a sudden change. 1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix 2 The very fatall plagues, and ouertures of those States and Kingdomes where they are once tollerated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † overtureadj. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French overture. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman overture overture n., borrowed in the 19th cent. as a heraldic term. Compare overt adj. 1b. Heraldry. Obsolete. As postmodifier. Of the wings of a bird represented as a charge, etc.: open or spread out, with tips pointing downwards. Cf. overt adj. 1b. ΚΠ ?1828 W. Berry Encycl. Heraldica I. sig. Bbbb/2 Volant overture, flying with the body in profile, or sideways, and the wings spread out on each side of the head, which the term overture implies. 1894 H. Gough & J. Parker Gloss. Terms Heraldry (new ed.) 215 Argent, an eagle recursant wings overture sable. 1894 H. Gough & J. Parker Gloss. Terms Heraldry (new ed.) 625 The expressions overt or overture..practically mean the same thing, i.e. with the wings open but bent downwards. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2019). overturev. Brit. /ˈəʊvətjʊə/, /ˈəʊvətʃ(ʊ)ə/, U.S. /ˈoʊvərˌtʃʊ(ə)r/, /ˈoʊvərˌtʃər/ Forms: 1600s– overture; Scottish pre-1700 1700s overtour, pre-1700 1700s overtur, pre-1700 1700s– overture. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: overture n. Etymology: < overture n. 1. Chiefly Christian Church. a. transitive. To present as an overture to a formal assembly, spec. to the supreme court of a Presbyterian Church (originally to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland). Frequently in passive with anticipatory it as subject and that-clause. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > legal process > [verb (transitive)] > present overture > bring forward as overture overture1655 1655 in W. Cramond Church of Aberdour (1896) 26 It is overtured that some from the presbytery may be appointed to confer [etc.]. 1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 100 It had become you rather, who would be accounted a kindly child of the Church of Scotland, to have overtured a way how the Church Patrimony..may be recovered from the Harpyes who devoure it. 1715 R. Wodrow Let. 12 May (1843) II. 36 The sub-committee overtured the form of an act anent it. 1726 R. Wodrow Let. 6 May (1843) III. 241 We overtured that either the act might be repealed or execute. 1838 Biblical Repertory July 479 In 1795, a request was overtured that the synods of Virginia and the Carolinas have liberty to direct their presbyteries to ordain such candidates as they may judge necessary. 1869 Putnam's Mag. July 116/1 The measure is now to be ‘overtured’ to the different Presbyteries. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 3 Mar. 4/3 It is therefore hereby humbly overtured to the Very Reverend the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of England..to take the premises into consideration. 1949 Scotsman 2 Feb. in Sc. National Dict. VI. 520/2 It is humbly overtured that the Assembly take the whole matter of the administration of the Sacrament of Baptism into consideration. b. transitive. To present or transmit an overture to (a legislative assembly, spec. the supreme court of a Presbyterian Church); to approach with an overture. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > petition > present (a petition) to put up1384 porrectc1425 to put it to a person1664 overturea1856 society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > legal process > [verb (transitive)] > present overture overturea1856 a1856 R. Webster Hist. Presbyterian Church (1857) 356 He overtured the presbytery to suffer no person to be inducted into the eldership. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 273 A motion is made in a presbytery ‘to overture’ the General Assembly. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 17 June 2/1 The Free Presbytery of Skye ‘overtured’ the General Assembly to take into its serious consideration ‘the views of man's origin propounded by Professor Drummond in his work on the “Ascent of Man”.’ 1997 G. L. Sittser Cautious Patriotism ix. 164 In 1940 the Box Butte presbytery overtured the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, United States of America. 2. gen. a. transitive. To put forward (something) as a suggestion or proposal. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (transitive)] > propose proffera1375 movea1382 adjustc1450 advance1509 to make words1645 offer1660 overturea1665 volunteer1818 a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) xix. 548 He shall not only want one of the greatest Arguments and Motives to perswade men and women unto waies that are excellent, but also overture such a thing which would be a snare and temptation to fight low. 1863 H. W. Beecher Freedom & War 438 There are many honest men who are overturing backwards and forwards, and trying to bring about a friendly adjustment of the case. 1880 S. Smith in Daily News 7 Apr. 3/3 A prominent Tory overtured to a leading Liberal that the party of the latter need not further trouble themselves with precautions against Tory opposition. 1959 C. M. Wilson Bodacious Ozarks i. 22 Every time my grandfather sent or overtured to send money or goods, his brother Greene spurned the would-be gifts. 1975 Jrnl. Conflict Resol. 19 495 The lowering or maintaining of one's own missile level to or at a position at least at or below the level of the other player (who overtured) in the preceding game. 1998 M. Wyke Parchments of Gender viii. 200 The conjugal image of Antoninus and Faustina..that we have just overtured. b. transitive. To offer or propose to (someone). rare. ΚΠ 1912 F. J. Bliss Relig. of Mod. Syria & Palestine Lect. vii. 334 A committee of the Gregorian churches of Constantinople has overtured the head of the church, the Patriarch of Etchmizian, to institute a council for church reform. 3. transitive. To introduce with, or as with, a musical overture; to prelude. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform (music) [verb (transitive)] > perform specific types of music jig1598 serenade1672 prelude1795 shivaree1805 dirge1826 ran-tan1866 overture1870 threnody1893 ragtime1908 rag1914 blow1949 1870 J. Hamilton Moses vii. 122 Needing no thunder nor trumpet to overture His discourse and astonish His audience. 1995 Independent (Nexis) 10 Mar. 21 The music which overtured Shampoo's performance at London's Hanover Grand was an astute choice. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1400adj.?1828v.1655
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