overgaze

English

Etymology

over- +‎ gaze

Verb

overgaze (third-person singular simple present overgazes, present participle overgazing, simple past and past participle overgazed)

1. (poetic) To gaze; to overlook.
   • 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XCI:

     Earth o'ergazing mountains

References

• “overgaze”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.