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单词 overgild
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overgildv.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈɡɪld/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈɡɪld/
Inflections: Past tense and past participle overgilded, overgilt Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈɡɪlt/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈɡɪlt/;
Forms: see over- prefix and gild v.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch overgulden (Dutch overgulden ), Old High German ubargulden (Middle High German übergulden , übergülden , German übergolden ) < the Germanic base of over- prefix + the Germanic base of gild v. Compare to gild over at gild v. 5.
transitive. To gild over, cover with gilding; to embroider all over with gold thread. Also figurative and in extended use. Chiefly in past participle.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > gild and silver [verb (transitive)] > gild
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engildc1475
limn1548
deaurate1562
regild1583
begild1600
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 198 Ne cwæð þu na goda, ac gramlicra deofla, þæra anlicnysse ge awendað on are, and on stanum, and ealle ða græftas ofergyldað, mid cræfte.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2612 Butt iff itt beo þurrh þildess gold. All full wel oferrgildedd.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 20 (MED) Þet unselhðe glistinde as þah he al ouerguld were.
c1300 St. Katherine (Laud) 159 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 96 An ymage, briȝt and schene, Ouer-guld and quoynte i-nov.
c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 185 Þe lengþe þerof was als mychel as þe brede, & he mette þe cite wiþ a rede ouergilt xii m. paas aboute.
1420 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 46 A spyce disshe of seluer, & ouerguld.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 78 Than Arthure lette make twelve images of laton and cooper, and overgylte with golde in the sygne of the twelve kynges.
1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 184 The purpur hevyn, ourscailit in silvir sloppis, Ourgilt the treis branchis, lef and barkis.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. H2 v All cunning drifts ouerguylded with outward holinesse.
1612 W. Parkes Curtaine-drawer 14 Those golden words that so ouerguild such bitter pilles.
a1616 R. Niccols Beggers Ape (1627) His Conscience neuer stickes To ouergild, and lift vp to the skies..inuentions blackest lyes.
1821 Ld. Byron Two Foscari iii. i, in Sardanapalus 232 The full sun, When gorgeously o'ergilding any towers.
1861 R. C. Trench Comm. Epist. 7 Churches Asia 149 Royal sceptres are not usually of iron, but of wood overgilded.
1909 Mod. Lang. Notes 24 110/1 When the poet with..sugared tongue overgilt his rude Scots with mellifluate terms, his modern readers hasten to turn the page.
1953 E. Hutton Assisi & Umbria Revisited xviii. 150 Unfortunately, in the fresco within the church the halo of the Madonna has been recently over-gilded.

Derivatives

overgilded adj. Obsolete
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eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xxii. 171 Ða ofergyldan saglas sceolden stician on ðæm gyldnum hringum.
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) ii. Introd. 94 Þurh þa ofergyldan weoloras þæs eadigan & þæs apostolican weres sancte Gregories.
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. lxxxii. 208 This farded and overgilded world.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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