英和和英

発音

• 韻: -ɪə(ɹ)

動詞

overpeer (三人称単数 現在形 overpeers, 現在分詞 overpeering, 過去形および過去分詞形 overpeered)

1. To peer over; to overlook.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iv]:

     […] the English, in the suburbs close intrench’d,
     Wont, through a secret grate of iron bars
     In yonder tower, to overpeer the city,
     And thence discover how with most advantage
     They may vex us with shot, or with assault.

   • 1906, Arthur Quiller-Couch (under the pseudonym “Q”), The Mayor of Troy, London: Methuen, Chapter 1, p. 16,^[1]

     In Admirals’ Row […] Miss Sally Tregentil would overpeer her blind and draw back in a flutter lest the Major had observed her.

2. (figuratively) To rise above.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, 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 IV, scene v]:

     The ocean, overpeering of his list,
     Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
     Than Young Laertes, in a riotous head,
     O’erbears Your offices.