单词 | overarch |
释义 | overarchn. Chiefly poetic. Now rare. An arching over, an overhead arch. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > like an arch or bow > over something overarch1884 overarching1893 1884 J. Tait Mind in Matter 69 There is the ordinary over-arch of blue sky or gray cloud. 1889 F. M. Peard Paul's Sister I. ix. 236 He..knew the warm red of the banks; the over-arch of the trees. a1909 G. C. Lodge Poems & Dramas (1911) I. ii. 253 Then is this azure overarch of heaven Lifted on ghostly wings of phantasy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). overarchv. transitive. To arch over, to bend over in or like an arch, to form an arch over. Frequently in extended use: to span; to embrace, encompass. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [verb (transitive)] > curve like arch or bow > over something overvaulta1610 enarch1611 arch1626 overarch1667 circumflex1850 overbow1855 inarch1893 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 304 In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High overarch't imbowr. View more context for this quotation 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 71 Under oaks and elms, Whose out~spread branches overarch the glade. 1856 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 146 428 In Brachionus amphiceros the strong setiform cilia of the disk-lobes overarch the incision; and its upper edges. 1878 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David V. Ps. cviii. 4 As the heavens over-arch the whole earth. 1890 Catholic World Sept. 770 ‘The Beautiful’, the Palazzo Vecchio, Santa Croce, and the Cathedral, and all this under an enchanting sky overarching a land where every art flourished. 1924 E. M. Forster Passage to India (1971) v. 40 Beyond the sky must not there be something that overarches all the skies, more impartial even than they? 1982 A. C. Moulyn Meaning of Suffering viii. 200 Marriage is an attempt to overarch the psychological and physiological differences between man and woman. 1999 Church Times 20 Aug. 12/5 Stand that story on its head, and you have the sequence of re-humanisation that overarches Romans from 1.18 to 12.2, via 8.29. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1884v.1667 |
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