Middle English Dictionary Entry
overskippen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | overskippen v. Also (error) overkipped. |
| Etymology | From skippen v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To skip over (material in a text, words or syllables of the divine service or prayer, periods of time in a chronicle, etc.), omit; ?also: to omit portions when reading (a text), abridge; (b) to refrain from (a sin).
Associated quotations
a
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)11.298 : A chartre is chalengeable byfor a chief iustice; If false latyne be in þe lettre, þe lawe it inpugneth, Or peynted parenterlinarie [or] parceles ouer-skipped [vr. ouer-kipped].
- c1400 Wycl.CGosp.John (Yk-M 14.D.2:Hudson)75/38 : To abbregge and syncope or ouerskippe salmes is to offre a defoulid sacrifice, not hool þat God requyriþ.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)22 : Balkyn, or ouerskyppyn: Omitto.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)372 : Ovyr hyppyn or ouer skyppyn, or passe a-wey and levyn: Omitto.
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)1208 : For many a word I over-skipte In my tale, for pure fere Lest my wordes mysset were.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)115/3 : I bere in my sacche sylablys & woordys, ouerskyppyd and synkopyd, & verse & psalmys, þe whiche þese clerkys han stolyn in þe qweere & haue fayled in here seruyse.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.41 : That erroure is moche encreased in so moche that dayes and monethes be ouerskippede [Trev.: were vnrekened; L prætermittuntur] in whom hit is seyde kynges haue reignede by holle yeres.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)4.471 : Eusebius callethe this man Cletus, but he ouerskippede [Trev.: overlepe; L prætermisit] hym in his cronicles.
- a1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)200/34 : And he must seyn distynclyche, nout to ȝarne ne to atret, for ȝif he seye to ȝarne, he may lythly ouyrscyppe, and ȝif he saye to atret, he may fallyn in gret distraccion and lesyn mychil tyme.
b
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)5.65 : Marcus Aurelius Antonius..oversckippede [Trev.: forbare; L prætermisit] not eny kynde of lecchery.