overdare
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
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, (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,[1]
- 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?
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Rickard to this entry?)
References edit
- “overdare”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.