overdare

English

Etymology

Verb

overdare (third-person singular simple present overdares, present participle overdaring, simple past and past participle overdared)

(intransitive) To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring.
- 1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow[e], The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, OCLC 837836359, (please specify the page):
  Meete you for this, proud ouerdaring peeres,
  Ere my sweete Gaueston shall part from me,
  This Ile shall fleete vpon the Ocean,
  And wander to the vnfrequented Inde.
- 1912, William Butler Yeats, The Countess Cathleen, Scene III, in Poems, London: T. Fisher Unwin, p. 59,
  When one so great has spoken of love to one
  
  So little as I, though to deny him love,
  
  What can he but hold out beseeching hands,
  
  Then let them fall beside him, knowing how greatly
  
  They have overdared?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for overdare in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

overdear, overread, read over

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