Middle English Dictionary Entry
overthrou(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | overthrou(e n. |
| Etymology | From overthrouen v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Destruction; downfall.
Associated quotations
- c1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)117/3 : Þe hiȝer þat a lord be reised, þe perlioser is þe ouerthrowe.
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)18 : Thomas duc of Claraunce..was slayn, withe many a noble lorde..that never so gret an overthrow of lordes and noble bloode was seene in no mannys daies as it was then.