overstareとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

overstare (三人称単数 現在形 overstares, 現在分詞 overstaring, 過去形および過去分詞形 overstared)

1. (obsolete) To stare wildly.
   • 1570, Roger Ascham, Margaret Ascham, editor, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], OCLC 228713506:

     an overstaring frounced head

2. (obsolete) To outstare.
   • c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     I would o'erstare the sternest eyes that look