overgoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /əʊvəˈɡəʊ/

動詞

overgo (三人称単数 現在形 overgoes, 現在分詞 overgoing, 過去形 overwent, 過去分詞 overgone)

1. (archaic) To cross, go over (a barrier etc.); to surmount. [from 8th c.]
2. (obsolete) To pass (a figurative barrier); to transgress. [8th-19th c.]
   • 1882, John Payne, trans., The Thousand Nights and One Night, vol 3:

     How many an one in its vanities hath gloried and taken pride, / Till froward and arrogant thus he grew and did all bounds o'ergo!

3. (intransitive, UK, dialectal) To pass by, pass away; often, to go unnoticed. [from 9th c.]
   • 1818, John Keats, “(please specify the page)”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […], OCLC 1467112:

     He did not rave, he did not stare aghast, / For all those visions were o'ergone, and past […]

4. To spread across (something); to overrun. [from 10th c.]
5. To go over, move over the top of, travel across the surface of; to traverse, travel through. [from 13th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto III:

     forward rode, and kept her readie way / Along the strond, which as she ouer-went, / She saw bestrowed all with rich aray / Of pearles and pretious stones of great assay […]

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, The Praise of Knowledge:

     The fixed stars overgo Saturn, and so in them and all the rest, all is but one motion, and the nearer the earth the slower – a motion also whereof air and water do participate, though much interrupted.

6. To go beyond; to exceed, surpass. [from 13th c.]
   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:

     O, what cause have I, / Thine being but a moiety of my grief, / To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!

   • 1992, Domna C Stanton, Discourses of Sexuality, p. 177:

     He seeks to persuade the queen not merely to emulate the Amazons' vigilant territoriality but to overgo them by emulating the Spaniards' rampant invasiveness.

7. To get the better of; to overcome, overpower. [from 13th c.]
   • 1594, Christopher Marlowe; Thomas Nash[e], The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage: […], London: […] Widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Woodcocke, […], OCLC 1203323776; reprinted as Dido, Queen of Carthage (Tudor Facsimile Texts; 72), Old English Drama Students’ Facsimile edition, [Amersham, Buckinghamshire: […] [E]ditor of the Tudor Facsimile Texts (i.e., John S. Farmer)], 1914, OCLC 897399266, (please specify the Google Books page):

     Both barking Scylla, and the sounding rocks, / The Cyclops' shelves, and grim Ceraunia's seat, / Have you o'ergone, and yet remain alive.

8. (obsolete) To overtake, go faster than. [15th-17th c.]
   • [1611?], Homer, “Book VI”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, OCLC 614803194; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], volume I, new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, OCLC 987451361:

     If it chance, that we be overgone / By his more swiftness, urge him still to run upon our fleet, / And (lest he 'scape us to the town) still let thy javelin meet / With all his offers of retreat.

9. (obsolete) To cover.
   • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, OCLC 1002865976; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, OCLC 987451380:

     All which, my thoughts say, they shall never do, But rather, that the earth shall overgo Some one at least.