| 释义 |
† overˈscape, v. Obs.
[f. over- 5 + scape v., aphetic f. escape.]
trans. a. To escape from. b. To escape the notice of. c. To pass over or fail to notice; to overlook.
1390Gower Conf. I. 117 As thing which thou miht over⁓scape. Ibid. 296 Him mai som liht word overscape, And yit ne meneth he no Cheste. 1534Whitinton Tullyes Offices (1540) 4 To defyne what is offyce, whyche to be over⁓scaped of Danecus, I mervayle. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 416 b, An Exposition of this place hath over⁓scaped so many sharpe sighted Doctours of Divinitie.
Hence † ˈoverscape n., omission, oversight.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 328, I began to be..in some doubt: whether this were an overscape of your penne, or the oversight of Theobald your printer. |