Middle English Dictionary Entry
overbīden v.
Entry Info
| Forms | overbīden v. |
| Etymology | OE oferbīdan |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To outlive (sb.); outlast (sth.); (b) to experience (sth.), live through; (c) to wait, be postponed; postpone (sth.).
Associated quotations
a
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1101 : Loc hweðer þæra ge broðra oðerne ofer bide.
- ?a1300(c1250) Prov.Hend.(Dgb 86)198/st.39 : Men seþ ofte breþren strive, Þe wiles þe fader is on live, Wo shal haven þat lond; Þe fader may boþe overbide.
- c1330 7 Sages(1) (Auch)75/1597 : He hadde iwedded two iolif wiues; He liuede and boþe hem ouer bod And was longe in his wideuhod.
- c1390 In a Pistel (Vrn)92 : Vr Bost, vr Brag, is sone ouerbide; Arthur and Ector þat we dredde, Deth haþ leid hem wonderly lowe.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.1260 : Iesu Crist vs sende Housbondes meke, yonge, and fressh abedde, And grace touerbyde hem that we wedde.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)22687 : Þe men þat þat dai sal ouerbide, Under a fell þai sal þam hide.
b
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)5457 : His suns for-wit him he cald, And mani thinges he þam tald, Bath þat þai suld ouer bidd [Frf: ouer-bide] And suld in last dais bitidd.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)6022 : Haile and fir was menged samen; þat it ouer bade fand þai na gamen.
c
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)3008 : Bi þis come sarra to þe tide, O birth sco moght not ouerbide.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)26627 : Þi scrift agh noght at ouer bide, For þou sal scriue þe o sin alson Als þou has euer þi sin don.