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Overgo   Listen
verb
Overgo  v. t.  (past overwent; past part. overgone; pres. part. overgoing)  
1.
To travel over. (R.)
2.
To exceed; to surpass. (Obs.)
3.
To cover. (Obs.)
4.
To oppress; to weigh down. (Obs.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Overgo" Quotes from Famous Books



... fancy not unworthily), come not nearer Ariosto's comedies, either for the fineness of plausible elocution, or the rareness of poetical invention, than that Elvish Queen doth to his Orlando Furioso, which notwithstanding you will needs seem to emulate, and hope to overgo, as you flatly professed yourself in ...
— Spenser - (English Men of Letters Series) • R. W. Church
... No more could god-beloved bard be slighted. His verse now brought him more than double, With neither duns, nor care, nor trouble. Whoe'er laid claim to noble birth Must buy his ancestors a slice, Resolved no nobleman on earth Should overgo him in the price. From which these serious lessons flow:— Fail not your praises to bestow On gods and godlike men. Again, To sell the product of her pain Is not degrading to the Muse. Indeed, her art they do abuse, Who think her wares to ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine


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