Middle English Dictionary Entry
overrēden v.
Entry Info
| Forms | overrēden v. Also -rẹ̄de. P. -rad(de; ppl. -rad(de, -red(de. |
| Etymology | OE oferrǣdan. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To counsel more wisely than (sb.), outwit (sb.); (b) to read (sth.) through; read over.
Associated quotations
a
- a1500 Chaucer TC (Hrl 3943)4.1456 : Men may þe olde ouer-renne & nat ouer-rede.
b
- c1390(?c1350) SVrn.Leg.(Vrn)81/1192 : Seint Austin so moni wrot Þat..Nihtes no dayes no mon miht..His bokes alle ouerrede [rime: mede].
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.956 : Sche tok the lettres whiche he hadde, Fro point to point and overradde.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.207 : This lettre was conveied..And..he hath it overrad.
- ?c1425 My lord whan (Roy 17.D.6)1 : My lord, whan ye thys boke wolle ouyr redde, hast nowte to blyne..god of hys merssy do hys sowlle mede þat vp-on hyme take the labbur and trauayll.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)18 : Oþere bookis..be weel ouer red and ouer studied and sufficiently vndirstonden.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)429 : Sufficient representing is includid þat þo jewis and heþen men ouerrede and vndirstonde and bere wel in consideracioun and mynde þo storial deedis of þe newe testament.
- (1447) Shillingford17 : As tochyng the seide answeris, y pray yow that they be well redely, avysely, and distinctely over radde and the substance of them right well understonde.
- (1447) Shillingford17 : Y pray you to be not wery to over rede hire, and se all the writyng that y have sende home to yow.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)131 : Neuertheles, who euer schal thenke that thei ben ouer hard or not nedeful to be of him ouerrad and leerned, y wole vouche saaf that he ouerlepe hem and go at the firste into the ije. chapiter.
- a1456 Shirley Bk.Motto (Ashm 59)329 : Whane yee þis boke haue over redde and seyne, To Johan Shirley restore yee it ageine.
- (c1456) Pecock Faith (Trin-C B.14.45)116 : The seid erring persoonys take longe leiser, forto sadli and oft overrede tho bokis, unto tyme thei schulen be wel aqueyntid with tho bokis.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)1/14 : Þei had bi long labour and studie ouer red and vndirstonde þe seid bokis.