单词 | overvault |
释义 | overvaultv.1 Chiefly poetic and literary. transitive. To arch over. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [verb (transitive)] > curve like arch or bow > over something overvaulta1610 enarch1611 arch1626 overarch1667 circumflex1850 overbow1855 inarch1893 a1610 J. Sempill in Sempill Ballates (1872) 242 His deere and Loving sweit Ouervoited with the vailles of balme-rebaiting trees. 1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. ix. 171 Polycarp of old..by the glories of the burning stake O'er vaulted. 1858 J. D. Burns Atlantis in Vision of Prophecy ii. 301 A luminous dome based on the quivering line Of Ocean, overvaulting the expanse Of mount and dale. c1878 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 73 Now Carisbrook keep goes under in gloom; Now it [sc. a cloud] overvaults Appledurcombe. 1909 A. C. Swinburne Ode to Mazzini in Compl. Wks. (1925–7) I. xii. 122 Whose bright sky overvaults earth's barren shade. 1943 C. De Tolnay Michelangelo 95 The broad cheeks are energetically framed by the strongly projecting chin and above by the low forehead, overvaulted by a heavy shock of hair. Derivatives overˈvaulted adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [adjective] > vaulting > vaulted embowed1481 vaulted1552 grinded1715 cross-grindedc1720 groined1789 overvaulted1842 cross-vaulted1848 1842 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 139 That over-vaulted grateful gloom, Thro' which the livelong day my soul did pass. 1877 Harper's Mag. Feb. 384/1 O discords of this overvaulted cave. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). overvaultv.2 transitive. To leap or spring over. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > be great in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] > be greater than in quantity, amount, or degree surmountc1374 passa1387 exceedc1400 to come over ——a1479 surpassa1555 outstrip1579 top1582 outnumber1598 over-reckona1635 turn1716 overgang1737 overspring1801 rise1838 overvault1851 override1867 better1873 1851 E. S. Wortley Trav. in U.S. I. xvi. 161 The humble with an ambition, that will be already practiced in ‘overvaulting itself’ and tumbling on the other side! 1886 Homilet. Rev. Aug. 119 All this comes of the endeavor to overvault deliberation. 1924–5 R. Jeffers Tower beyond Trag. in Coll. Poetry (1988) I. ii. iii. 168 Have you suddenly become…a God, brother, to over vault Agamemnon's royalty? 1983 Rev. in Amer. Hist. 11 322 His aspirations over-vault those of ordinary historians. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1a1610v.21851 |
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