单词 | overbrood |
释义 | overbroodv. poetic. Now rare. transitive. To brood or hover over. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [verb (transitive)] > prefigure or foreshadow portendc1429 foreshadow1577 threatena1616 overbrood1818 the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > overhang [verb (transitive)] > hover over overhovec1390 overbrood1818 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vi. sig. R.ii Then comes the foulest feend, and all their deynties ouerbroodes. 1793 W. Wordsworth Descr. Sketches 5 Where Silence, on her night of wing, o'er-broods Unfathom'd dells and undiscover'd woods. 1818 H. H. Milman Samor v. 115 To rise..and o'er-brood The dim and desert beacon of revenge. 1865 J. G. Whittier Eternal Goodness 25 Ye see the curse which overbroods A world of pain and loss. a1892 J. G. Whittier Summer by Lakeside in Poet. Wks. (1894) I. 27 O isles of calm! O dark, still wood! And stiller skies that overbrood Your rest with deeper quietude! 1910 F. W. Bourdillon Ode Def. Matterhorn 2 Death, That jealous lover whose dark wing o'erbroods Thy silver solitudes! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1558 |
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