单词 | overlive |
释义 | overlivev. Now rare (literary). 1. transitive. To live longer than, or after the death of (a person); to live through or beyond (an event, etc.); to outlive. Also (of a thing): to outlast, endure longer than. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > continue in life [verb (transitive)] overliveeOE overbideOE outlive1472 survive1572 overa1800 eOE (Kentish) Charter: Eadweald & Cyneðryð (Sawyer 1200) in F. E. Harmer Sel. Eng. Hist. Docs. 9th & 10th Cent. (1914) 10 Ðet lond..wes..becueden Osbearte his broðar suna, gif he Cyneðryðe oferlifde. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 305 (MED) Seint Bryde..overlevede him by sixty ȝere. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 254 (MED) If Blanche ouer lyue Edward, scho salle haf, hir lyue, Goscoyn afterward. c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 3807 Howe lange Marie ouerlyved hire sons ascensioune. 1439 in J. P. Collier Trevelyan Papers (1857) 19 (MED) Y well that my seyde feoffeis, aftyr my death, make an estate to Johan my wyef, if shee overlyve me. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. iv. 49 I, allace, allace! Ourlevit hes my fatis profitable. 1537 Bible (Matthew's) Josh. xxiv. 31 And Israel serued the Lorde all the dayes of Iosua, and all the dayes of the elders that ouerlyued Iosua. 1638 in D. Littlejohn Rec. Sheriff Court Aberdeenshire (1906) II. 455 The defunct long ovirleiving the terme of payment. 1650 Exercitation conc. Usurped Powers 19 These oathes binde..to an allegiance over-living his Majesties person. 1736 S. Duck Poems Several Occasions 302 Some overlive their Pleasures here; Some die, before they taste what Pleasures are. 1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 277 If his three daughters..should over-live their mother. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars ii. 107 The year of the great flood was the frequent talk..of all forefathers who overlived it. a1936 A. E. Housman tr. Sophocles Oedipus Coloneus in Coll. Poems & Sel. Prose (1988) 228 This to their wage have they Which overlive their day. 1945 ELH 12 121 In a body that dies ever since it was made, I carry a soul or rather it carries me to such a perpetuity that no saint, no angel, not even God Himself shall over-live me. 2. intransitive. To survive, continue in life; to endure. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > continue in life [verb (intransitive)] nesteOE to live forthOE overliveOE lastc1225 livec1410 survive1473 supervive1532 subsist?1533 skill1537 to live on1590 outlive1594 (to be) to the front1871 OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 51 Superstes, laf oððe oferlybbende. 1422 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 50 (MED) If all þe susters dye ar they come to age or be maryed, þat then þe mony tourn to þe vse of her bretheren ouerlyuyng. 1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 208/1 Such of theyme as shal over lyf severally emongs theyme. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 485 (MED) So nathelesse that the forsaid Symond and luce or the one of them that ouerliveth shold lifte vp and make a chamber of stonys in the same place. 1506 R. Vertue in J. Harvey Gothic Eng. (1947) App. V. 184 I woll that the part of hym so being dede ramayne unto that other overlyving. 1524 Sir R. Sutton's Will in R. Churton Life App. 543 I will that these iii that overlyve make a new feoffment. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 773 Why do I overlive, Why am I mockt with death, and length'nd out To deathless pain? View more context for this quotation 1869 G. A. Simcox Poems & Romances 254 Yea, after all, we overlive, Lose, Bear, forgive, Are sifted here on middle earth As in a sieve. 1897 Saga-bk. of Viking Club Jan. 371 These divisions have overlived to the present time. 1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros xii. 174 A high green knoll, like some fragment of a kindlier clime that over-lived into an age of ruin. ΚΠ 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 124 He was the only son of a father, who..rather over-liv'd his income. 4. transitive (reflexive). To live or exist too long; to live too intensely or too actively. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [verb (reflexive)] > live too long or actively overlive1861 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 411 The Hanse had overlived itself. 1921 J. Galsworthy To Let ii. ii. 126 He had only just relapsed, from having overworked, or overlived, himself again. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.eOE |
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