overvaultingadj.1
/ˌəʊvəˈvɔːltɪŋ/, /ˌəʊvəˈvɒltɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈvɔltɪŋ/, /ˌoʊvərˈvɑltɪŋ/ Overarching.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [adjective] > vaulting
overvaulting1840
1840 H. H. Milman Samor in Poet. Wks. II. x. 231 How broad the over-vaulting palace arch Spreads up the heavens, with amethyst ceil'd.
1866 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 547 The snows and overvaulting clouds which crown its mountains shine all day.
1980 R. Steele Walter Lippmann & Amer. Cent. 496 A skeptic [sc. Lippmann] who yearned for an overvaulting sense of order he feared did not exist—the weakness that marred The Public Philosophy.
1998 Seattle Times (Nexis) 24 July b5 I vividly remember Fremont Avenue in Minneapolis with its beautiful overvaulting tunnel of American elms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
overvaultingadj.2
/ˌəʊvəˈvɔːltɪŋ/, /ˌəʊvəˈvɒltɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈvɔltɪŋ/, /ˌoʊvərˈvɑltɪŋ/ rare.
That leaps over something; that dominates or prevails over something.
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society > armed hostility > attack > [adjective] > other types of attack
feigned1598
overvaulting1879
frontal1884
tip-and-run1891
hit and run1940
pre-emptive1941
banzai1945
surgical1965
kamikaze1966
1879 A. Bain Educ. as Sci. viii. 270 An over-vaulting and premature attack on the citadel.
1997 Re: Time to draft the President in soc.culture.nigeria (Usenet newsgroup) 13 Nov. But the devil keeps pushing him in his overvaulting ambition to do just that.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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