overliver

English

Etymology

From overlive +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈlɪvə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

overliver (plural overlivers)

1. (obsolete) A survivor.
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC, page 191:

     Hereupon a Peace was concluded, which was publiſhed a little before Chriſtmaſſe, in the Fourteenth yeare of the Kings Raigne, to continue for both the Kings liues, and the ouer-liuer of them, and a yeare after.

References

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