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overmaster, v.|əʊvəˈmɑːstə(r), -mæst-|
[f. over- 21 + master v., q.v. for Forms.]
1. trans. To make oneself master over; to master completely; to gain the victory over, get the better of, overcome, conquer, overpower. (Chiefly fig. with abstract subj. or obj., e.g. a feeling, faculty, condition, force, etc.)
1340Ayenb. 15 To viȝte wyþ þe halȝen an his to ouercome and to ouermaistri. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xvii. 392 The one cowde not overmayster the other. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 696/1 So shall neuer any mannes tale..ouermaister that inward mocion of God. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 40 Where once reason hath so much ouer-mastred passion. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 178 His strength is such as can not be ouer-mastred. 1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 104 He ouer-maisterd a Turkish towne and..put two thousand Turkes to the sword. 1800Coleridge Christabel ii. xxiii, O'er-mastered by the mighty spell. 1879M. Arnold Democracy Mixed Ess. 26 English democracy runs no risk of being overmastered by the State.
†b. To surpass, excel, ‘beat’. Obs. rare.
1627Speed England xxxviii. §9 It ouer-masters all the other places of this Country for fairenesse.
†2. To be master over; to dominate; to hold in one's power or possession. Obs.
c1550Cheke Matt. xx. 25 Je know yt y⊇ princes of y⊇ heyen do overmaster yem. 1595Shakes. John ii. i. 109 Liuing blood doth in these temples beat Which owe the crowne, that thou oremasterest. 1648Gage West Ind. xviii. (1655) 136 A hill which discovereth all the City, and standeth as overmastring of it.
Hence overˈmastered ppl. a., overˈmastering vbl. n. and ppl. a., overˈmasteringly adv.
1645Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith iii. (1845) 37 There is an overmastering apprehension of Christ's love. 1649Milton Eikon. xxvi, A weak and over-master'd enemy. 1816Scott Old Mort. vi, One in whom some strong o'ermastering principle has overwhelmed all other passions and feelings. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. xvi, The car Of the o'ermaster'd victor stops. 1860Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. III. 209 He had been tortured by scruples, he had fought fiercely with over⁓mastering inclination. 1866Dowden in Contemp. Rev. II. 539 The blinding gladness of life was overmasteringly strong. 1899Daily News 10 June 7/4 It would result in the immediate overmastering of the old citizens. 1903Cambr. Mod. Hist. II. xviii. 644 He [sc. Paul III] was not a zealot, possessed with one overmastering idea. 1915F. S. Oliver Ordeal by Battle iv. 120 Nietzsche is not concerned to evolve a sovereign and omnipotent state, but a high overmastering type of man. 1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 13 June 2 What a blockade by sea can do..an overmastering force of bombers can most certainly do. 1957J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation (rev. ed.) v. 110 Some have this in an overmastering degree. |