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overstride, v.|-ˈstraɪd|
[over- 5, 10, 13, 22, 26; cf. MLG. overstrîden.]
1. To stride over or across.
a. trans. To pass or move across (something) by striding.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 111 Here he cumeð stridende fro dune to dune, and ouer strit þe cnolles. 1576Turberv. Venerie 68 You must looke..amongest the fearnes and small twigges the whiche he hath overstridden. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. vi. 31. 1861 All Year Round V. 14 A man o'er⁓strides the tomb, and drops beneath.
b. To stretch the legs across; to stand or sit with one leg on each side of; to bestride.
1508Dunbar Flyting 209 Strait Gibbonis air, that nevir ourstred ane horse. 1591Spenser Ruines of Time 541 From the one he could to th' other coast Stretch his strong thighes, and th' Ocean overstride. 1855Browning Bp. Blougram's Apol. 393 You see one lad o'erstride a chimney-stack. 1875Jowett Plato III. 107 The Great Protector..overstrides others, and stands like a colossus in the chariot of State.
†c. intr. To pass or cross over. Obs.
a1400–50Alexander 5477 Ouire-stride þar any strange man,.. Þai droȝe þam doun in-to þe depe.
2. trans. To stride or extend beyond; fig. to go beyond, surpass.
1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. ii. vii. 28 Now our Opposites doe farre overmatch us and overstride us in contention. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 50 Such a seeds-man doth overstride his cast, and thereupon cometh the lande to bee hopper-galde. 1925Glasgow Herald 5 Nov. 11/2 In conception and in achievement it [sc. The British Empire Exhibition] overstrode the confines of mere commercial partisanship.
3. intr. To take longer strides than is natural.
1899Hillier in Westm. Gaz. 5 Jan. 9/1 For the first couple of miles I thought he was ‘over-striding’, but I soon found that the stride was his natural one. |
