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单词 overglide
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overglidev.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈɡlʌɪd/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈɡlaɪd/
Forms: see over- prefix and glide v.; also past participle late Middle English ouyrglyde, 1500s ouerglide (Scottish), 1500s ouerglyde (Scottish), 1500s ourglyde (Scottish).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, glide v.
Etymology: < over- prefix + glide v. Compare to glide over (see glide v. 6). Compare Middle Dutch overgliden (Dutch overglijden).The past participle forms in quots. c1500 at sense 2 and a1522 at sense 1 apparently show alteration for the purposes of rhyme. The word apparently became obsolete in early Middle English and was re-formed in the 16th cent.
Chiefly poetic. Now rare.
1. transitive. To glide over, pass over gently or smoothly.In quot. a1522 intransitive: to move over (to a place).
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > cause to move along smoothly > move smoothly over
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skate1900
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) vii. 234 Se seltcuða tungel gebicnode þæs soðan cyninges acennednysse, on þam earde þe he oferglad.
c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 68 & heom oferglad þa ðæs apostolas scæde, & heo sona wurdon hale fram al untrumnesse for his scæde repunge.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. ix. 32 Fortill withdraw towart the tother syde Quhar as the fyre was not ȝit ourglyde [v.rr. ouerglyde, -glide].
a1542 T. Wyatt Psalm xxxiii. Prol. 312 in Coll. Poems (1969) That sonne..Whose glauncyng light the cordes did ouer glyde.
1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile in Poems I. 15 Ideal sweetnesses shall over-glide you.
2. intransitive. Of an event: to go by, to take place. (In quot. in perfect tense formed with to be.) Obsolete.
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c1500 (?c1300) Northern Passion in MS Ashm. 61 f. 88 Bot y seyd y wold a byde To yt feste were ouer glyde [a1325 Cambr. Gg.1.1 wer go biside].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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