overleapn.
/ˈəʊvəliːp/, U.S. /ˈoʊvərˌlip/ rare. † 3. Scottish. A spring tide; = overloup n. 2. Obsolete.
1. An omission; spec. (in medieval computation) the omission of a day in the reckoning of the lunar month (cf. leap year n.). Now archaic.In quot. 1995 translating the passage cited in quot. OE2.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > [noun] > exclusion from a category, etc. > non-inclusion or omission
overleapOE
omissiona1440
overskippingc1450
setting bya1592
omittancea1616
elision1812
Passover1822
OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. i. 64 Ðes saltus (þæt ys þes monan oferhlyp), he wyxst wundorlice.
OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. ii. 102 On kalendas Septembris na quarta æfter þam gerime, ac quinta for þæs monan oferhlype, id est propter saltum.
c1390 (c1300) MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 243 (MED) Þe Rule of seint Benete..þei made me to rede, And as I radde, sore gon i drede; Ouer lepe mihti make non, Bote of þe clauses euerichon harde a countes I gan ȝelde.
1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists 34 We like not these bold ouer-leapes of so many Centuries.
1995 P. S. Baker & M. Lapidge Byrhtferth's Enchiridion 103 The moon is not four days old,..but rather five because of the moon's overleap.
2. Scottish and English regional (northern). = overloup n. 1a.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [noun] > passing beyond a point or limit > beyond bounds
overleap1671
overloup1686
1671 Processes Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court No. 89 1 June [The grazing] of ane naig or meir with the ouerleap of the grasse of the grein lane dyke.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words 518 Owerloup, an overleap; applied to the intrusion and trespass of cattle.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > spring
springa1398
spring-floodc1405
spring tide1548
high tide1609
sea-spring1627
overloup1710
stream-tide1789
overleap1795
1795 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. at Owerleap If one of the cavels be to succeed the other early of the Monday morning, there will be two cobles secured at the head shot; but that rarely happens, but at the over-leap.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
overleapv.
/ˌəʊvəˈliːp/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈlip/ 1. † b. intransitive. To leap over. Obsolete. rare.In quot. c1380 in perfect tense formed with to be.
a. transitive. To leap over or across; to leap beyond or further than. Frequently figurative: to exceed, go beyond, transcend.
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society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > cross or pass over
overstyeOE
overleapeOE
overfareOE
overgoc1225
passc1300
overpassa1382
to pass through ——a1382
overlendc1450
overmetec1480
overspana1522
cross1583
transpass1626
overwenda1649
overmarcha1805
peregrinate1835
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > cause to jump [verb (transitive)] > leap, spring, or jump over
leapc900
overleapeOE
freea1578
overjump1604
jump1609
overskip1629
fly1719
top1735
spring?a1775
clear1791
overbound1813
over1837
overspring1847
leap-frog1872
vault1884
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) v. vi. 400 Wæs þæt hit sume sloh on þæm wæge mid swiðþran ræse oferhleop & oferstælde.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 279 Þe hulles þe beoð lachȝere..ouerleapeð.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 160 Delphines..stertelen and ouerelepen shippes.
a1500 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (Harl. 3909) (1926) 9278 (MED) Lepyng in hilles & ore-lepyng the coppes of hom..he went.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iv. 49 That is a step, On which I must fall downe, or else o're-leape, For in my way it lyes. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 181 Th' arch-fellon..At one slight bound high overleap'd all bound Of Hill or highest Wall. View more context for this quotation
1701 C. Gildon Love's Victim i. i. 3 Yet still unable to o'releap the Fence.
1775 G. Stuart tr. J. L. de Lolme Constit. Eng. i. ix. 128 Procuring a public advantage by overleaping restraints.
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. ix. 128 The younger beast overleaping its intended bound, fell directly before the mastiff.
1872 A. T. de Vere Legends St. Patrick 40 A stream that any five-years' child might overleap.
1912 W. H. Hudson Story of Renaissance i. 8 An eager desire to overleap all limitations..was a characteristic of this period of emancipation.
1995 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 82 1234/1 He possessed both ambition and principles, and..never let the former overleap the latter.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > over
overleapc1380
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 462 (MED) Þe paynymes þat were oppon þe brigge..somme were styked þorȝ lyure..And many wer ouer y-lepe.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Ecclus. xxxviii. 37 In to the chirche þei shul not ouerlepen [L. transilient].
2. † b. intransitive. To turn aside from the main discourse; to digress. Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To pass over or by; to omit, leave out, skip.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > exclude [verb (transitive)] > omit or leave out
letc900
overleapOE
forletc1200
beleavec1275
overpassa1382
to cut outc1400
overskipc1400
omisec1425
omit1439
to leave outc1450
obmise1490
neglect1511
skip1531
obmit?1541
enterlesse1548
intermit1570
prevade1641
waive1651
suppress1826
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > not do [verb (transitive)] > allow to pass or miss (an opportunity, etc.)
overleapa1400
slack1548
slake1560
lapse1667
OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) viii. §1. 58 Se dæg is gehaten Saltus lune, þæt is ðæs monan hlyp, forðan ðe he oferhlypð ænne dæg.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 257 For Isodorus in þe cronike of his fifte book Ethymologiarum overlepeþ [?a1475 anon. tr. levethe aweye; L. omittit] Ptholomeus Philometor.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 2913 For hyt [sc. the ninth commandment] haþ þe same assyse Þat longeþ vn-to coueytyse, y wyl now ouer-lepe hyt here.
?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 27 Ouer-lepe alle þese cifers & sett þat neþer 2 þat stondes toward þe ryght side.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 1154 And so I leve here of this tale, and overlepe grete bookis of sir Launcelot, what grete adventures he ded whan he was called ‘le Shyvalere de Charyot’.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 91v Duke Cephal answerde his demaund in all points (one except) The which (as knowne apparantly) for shame he ouerlept.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. x. 71 Your rime falleth vpon the first and fourth verse ouerleaping two.
1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. i. 5 Whatever objection made by us, he finds too heavy to remove, he over-leaps it.
1810 T. Jefferson Let. 20 Sept. in Writings (1984) 1233 The example of overleaping the law is of greater evil than a strict adherence to its imperfect provisions.
1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles i. 105 All the intervening steps of these tardier processes were overleaped.
1866 G. Meredith Let. 12 Mar. (1970) I. 330 How true is what you [sc. Swinburne] say of his [sc. Byron's] power of overleaping idyllic details and striking the pure elements.
1902 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 7 768 One who approaches the subject from the standpoint of reform..will tend to overleap the past and ask the present and future significance of our conception.
1994 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 May a20/2 It was discovered that lower-court judges were willing to expand a wide range of claims by overleaping legislatures.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > digress
overleapc1400
to cast, fet, fetch, go, take a compass?a1500
digress1530
traverse1530
decline?1543
square1567
rovea1575
deviate1638
to step aside1653
swerve1658
to sally out1660
transgress1662
to run off1687
canceleera1697
cantona1734
excurse1748
to travel out of the record1770
divagate1852
desult1872
sidetrack1893
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xxi. 360 A lytel ich ouer-lep [v.rr. ouerlepe, ouur-lepte] for lesynges sake.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > cause to jump [verb (transitive)] > leap into or upon
overleapc1400
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. Prol. 150 For a cat of a courte cam whan hym lyked, And ouerlepe [C ouer-leep] hem lyȝtlich and lauȝte hem at his wille.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. Prol. 199 Þat cat..þat can ȝow ouerlepe.
?a1425 (a1415) Lanterne of Liȝt (Harl.) (1917) 19 Anti-crist..þe pore, meke, symple and loweli..ouer-lepiþ & ouer-renneþ.
4.
a. transitive. To surpass, excel. rare.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)]
overstyeOE
overshinec1175
overgoc1225
passc1225
surmountc1369
forpassc1374
overmatcha1375
overpassa1382
to pass overa1393
overcomec1400
outpass?a1425
exceedc1425
precedec1425
superexcelc1429
transcendc1430
precel?a1439
outcut1447
overgrowc1475
to come over ——a1479
excel1493
overleapa1500
vanquish1533
outweigh1534
prevent1540
better1548
preferc1550
outgo1553
surpassa1555
exsuperate1559
cote1566
overtop1567
outrun1575
outstrip1579
outsail1580
overruna1586
pre-excel1587
outbid1589
outbrave1589
out-cote1589
top1590
outmatch1593
outvie1594
superate1595
surbravec1600
oversile1608
over-height1611
overstride1614
outdoa1616
outlustrea1616
outpeera1616
outstrikea1616
outrival1622
antecede1624
out-top1624
antecell1625
out-pitch1627
over-merit1629
outblazea1634
surmatch1636
overdoa1640
overact1643
outact1644
worst1646
overspana1657
outsoar1674
outdazzle1691
to cut down1713
ding1724
to cut out1738
cap1821
by-pass1848
overtower1850
pretergress1851
outray1876
outreach1879
cut1884
outperform1937
outrate1955
one-up1963
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > cause to jump [verb (transitive)] > surpass in leaping, springing, or jumping
overleap1603
outleap1609
outjump1639
outbound1769
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lxi. 1 The halyman, ouerlepand in thoght of heuen all warldis lufers.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xx. 41 Leaping, and straining himselfe to overleape an other.
1980 J. C. Oates Unholy Loves i. 24 She was confronted with her own viciousness, which threatened at times to overleap his.
b. transitive (reflexive). To leap too far; to overreach oneself. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (reflexive)] > jump too far for one's strength
overleapa1616
overjump1856
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 27 Vaulting Ambition, which ore-leapes it selfe, And falles on th'other. View more context for this quotation
1821 J. Galt Ayrshire Legatees vii. 195 Prompted by that ambition which overleaps itself.
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders III. v. 82 The cautious supervision of his past years had overleapt itself at last.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 9 Aug. 2/2 War games, night operations, attacks on a large scale are ambitious exercises in which Volunteers who have not a firm grip upon the rudiments of infantry training are only too apt to overleap themselves.
1998 J. M. Woody Freedom's Embrace iv. 104 But this argument overleaps itself and falls into contradiction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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