overcanopy

English

Etymology

Verb

overcanopy (third-person singular simple present overcanopies, present participle overcanopying, simple past and past participle overcanopied)

(transitive) To form a canopy over (something).
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, 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, [Act II, scene i], page 150, column 1:
  I know a banke where the wilde thyme blowes, / Where Oxſlips and the nodding Violet growes, / Quite ouer-cannoped with luſcious woodbine, / With ſweet muſke roſes, and with Eglantine; […]
- 1794 May 8, Ann Radcliffe, chapter V, in The Mysteries of Udolpho, a Romance; […], 2nd edition, volume IV, London: […] G. G. and J. Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 76:
  On an eminence, in one of the most sequestered parts of these woods, was a rustic seat, formed of the trunk of a decayed oak, which had once been a noble tree, and of which many lofty branches still flourishing united with beech and pines to over-canopy the spot.
- 1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto VIII”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 104:
  [G]reen woods overcanopy the wave, / Which like a toil-worn labourer leaps to shore, / To meet the kisses of the flowrets there.
- 1814, Robert Southey, “Canto XXI”, in Roderick, the Last of the Goths, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], by James Ballantyne and Co. […], →OCLC, page 256:
  An oak grew near, and with its ample boughs / O'ercanopied the spring; its fretted roots / Emboss'd the bank, and on their tufted bark / Grew plants which love the moisture and the shade.
- 1885 December, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Olalla”, in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1st American (authorized) edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1887, →OCLC, page 201:
  The next day it was glorious weather; depth upon depth of blue over-canopied the mountains; the sun shone wide; and the wind in the trees and the many falling torrents in the mountains filled the air with delicate and haunting music.