单词 | overridden |
释义 | overriddenadj. 1. Of a horse: that has been ridden too hard or too much; worn out by excessive riding. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [adjective] > ridden to excess forridden?a1513 overridden1596 surreined1601 1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. F3v As twere a many ouer ridden iades. View more context for this quotation a1626 W. Rowley New Wonder (1632) iv. 62 The other Is a coach-horse of the same over-ridden race. 1681 A. Radcliffe Ovid Travestie (ed. 2) 73 Soon after that your project was of stealing That over-ridden Whore that Mistress Hellen. 1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf vii. 73 There was blood..upon the rowels of his spurs and the sides of his over-ridden horse. 1849 E. Bennett Leni-Leoti xxiv. 105 We caught our two overridden horses, and found, to our great delight, that they were still capable of performing a heavy task. 1933 T. S. Moore Poems IV. 9 Though once thy hate coursed furious through these veins That over-ridden passion has dropped dead. 1999 Topeka (Kansas) Capital Jrnl. (Nexis) 25 Nov. Driving cars till they just die, like old, overridden horses, on a road in the middle of nowhere. 2. That has been countermanded or superseded; (also) that has been ignored, overruled, or treated contemptuously. ΚΠ 1648 Mercurius Psitacus No. 4. 2 The Almighty and most unmercifull Commons, with the consent of the o're-ridden tame..Lords, have commanded an old Ordinance to be new printed. 1886 Polit. Sci. Q. 1 271 The king..cared far less about the content of the bill than the threatened manner of its enactment. His chief thought was, how to save himself from the chagrin of an overridden veto. 1905 Amer. Hist. Rev. 11 61 In the House the friends of the insurgents were by this time quite discredited and overridden. 2000 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 10 Jan. The number of days isn't as important as letting people know when an overridden bill takes effect. 3. That has been ridden over; (Geology) that has been covered by something else passing over it. ΚΠ 1887 Harper's Mag. Jan. 262/2 He..set off, as fast as his overridden state permitted, for the house of Mr. Cheeseman. 1906 Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 38 363 Not only is there no moraine on the valley sides but there is no trace even of over-ridden moraines. 1952 G. H. Dury Map Interpr. vi. 51 The sill of the over-ridden col has been much lowered..by the lateral over-spill of distributary glaciers. 2002 Marine Geol. (Electronic ed.) 186 Given also the high thermal conductivity of the evaporites and the low heat production from the overridden Jurassic oceanic crust..[etc.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1596 |
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