overdareとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

overdare (三人称単数 現在形 overdares, 現在分詞 overdaring, 過去形および過去分詞形 overdared)

1. (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 かつ add a quotation of Rickard to this entry?)

参照

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

アナグラム

• overdear, overread, read over