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▪ I. overslip, v. Now rare.|əʊvəˈslɪp|
1. trans. To slip or pass by (fig.), pass over without notice; to let slip, let pass; to fail or neglect to notice, mention, use, or take advantage of; to leave out, omit, miss. Common in 16th and 17th c.; now rare or Obs. [over- 4, 5.]
a1425Cursor M. 12900 (Trin.) But miȝte he neuer ouer slip Þat him self seide of warship. 1513Douglas æneis x. xiii. 81 Forsuyth, I sall nocht ourslyp in this steyd Thy hard myschance, Lawsus, and fatale deyd. 1535Coverdale Esther ix. 28 The dayes of Purim, which are not to be ouerslipte amonge the Iewes. 1599Thynne Animadv. (1875) 62, I must speake of one woorde in the same, deservinge correctione, whiche I see you ouerslipped. 1672Essex Papers (Camden) 20 That y⊇ Advantages of y⊇ Crowne by this Regulation bee not overslipt. 1759Brown Compl. Farmer 98 A little before Michaelmas, or, if you have overslipt that time, then about the end of February. 1860Motley Netherl. (1868) I. vii. 446, I had overslipt the good occasion then in danger.
†b. intr. or absol. To act inadvertently, make a slip. Also refl. in same sense. Obs.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 148 Ouerslipping himselfe at vnawares in his words. 1609Rowlands Knaue of Clubbes 28 But see how wise ingenious men, Do often ouerslip! 1641Milton Animadv. (1851) 214 The easines of erring, or overslipping in such a boundlesse and vast search.
†2. intr. To slip or pass by; to pass unnoticed or unused; of time, to elapse (usually implying the missing of an opportunity). Obs. [over- 4.]
1470–85Malory Arthur viii. xiv, For sire Segwarydes durste not haue ado with sir Tristram..therfore he lete it ouer slyp. 1513[see overslipping ppl. a. below]. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 1002 Being very desirous not to let such an opportunitie to overslip. 1607in Hist. Wakefield Gram. Sch. (1892) 65 If (upon time overslipped) the election..shall be in the Maister and Fellowes of Emanuel Colledge.
†3. trans. To slip away from, escape (a person); usually fig., to escape the notice of, pass unnoticed or unused by, be missed by. Obs.
1574Whitgift Def. Answ. i. Wks. 1851 I. 178, I think it hath but overslipped you, and that upon better advice you will reform it. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 1576 Which all this time hath overslipp'd her thought. 1630Wadsworth Pilgr. viii. 82, I would not let any occasion ouerslip me. 1688Hoole Sch.-Colloquies 394, I had rather write it my self lest any thing should perhaps overslip me.
4. To slip past or beyond (lit.); to pass beyond, esp. secretly or covertly. [over- 13.]
c1595Capt. Wyatt R. Dudley's Voy. W. Ind. (Hakl. Soc.) 19 It was thearefore concluded secretlie..that in the night they shoulde overslip them [the islands]. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 687 Hiding himselfe therein, and letting the dogges by that means to ouerslip him, as not being able to find the sent of him. 1628Digby Voy. Medit. (1868) 26 And shortened saile, least before morning I might ouerslippe them. 1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. ii. (1682) 8 That is not my house said [he] you have over-slipt it a League.
†5. To slip beyond or outside of (fig.); to transgress through inadvertence. Obs.
1534Whitinton Tullyes Offices i. (1540) 13 Many causes are wont to be..of ouerslyppynge of mannes offyce and dutie. 1590Greene Orl. Fur. Wks. (Rtldg.) 92/1 Lest..My choler overslip the law of arms. a1592― Poems 120 She [Nature] over-slipped her cunning and her skill, And aimed too fair, but drew beyond the mark.
6. intr. ? To slip or slide beyond the proper point in stepping: said of a horse. ? Obs.
1706Lond. Gaz. No. 4212/4 When he trots out he over⁓slips, and is shod short before for it.
Hence overˈslipped ppl. a., overˈslipping vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1513Douglas æneis xiii. ix. 50 The lang declinand and ourslippand nycht Gan schape full fast to mak schort and ourdryve. 1582Stanyhurst æneis Ded. (Arb.) 7 Thee ouerslipping of yt were in effect thee chocking of thee poet his discourse. 1616R. C. Times' Whistle, etc. Ad Lectorem (E.E.T.S.) 111, I had noe competencie of time..to correct any easily overslipped errour.
▪ II. † ˈoverslip, n. Obs.
[f. prec. v.]
An act of ‘overslipping’ or inadvertence; a slip.
1593Pass. Morrice (1876) 82, I let not them passe in whom I discouer not many ouer-slippes. 1650T. B[ayley] Worcester's Apoph. 94 After that he had seen him express so much of sorrow for that over-slip. |