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overshadow, v.|əʊvəˈʃædəʊ|
[OE. ofersceadwian: see over- 8. So MHG. überschatewen, MDu. overschaduwen, Goth. ufarskadwjan, all rendering L. obumbrāre in N.T.]
1. trans. To cast a shadow over; to cover or obscure with shadow or darkness, overcloud; to overshade, shade over.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Mark ix. 7 Seo lyft hi ofer-sceadewude. Ibid. Luke ix. 34 Ða wearð ᵹenip & ofer-sceadude hiᵹ [c 1160 Hatton, ofer-scadede]. c1050Suppl. ælfric's Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 178/44 Obumbro, ic ofersceadewiᵹe. 1388Wyclif Luke ix. 34 A cloude was maad, and ouerschadewide hem. 1535Coverdale Baruch v. 8 The woddes & all pleasaunt trees shal ouershadowe Israel. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa ix. 345 The moone being ouershadowed with clouds. 1791Boswell Johnson 2 Aug. an. 1763, A long narrow paved court in the neighbourhood, overshadowed by some trees. 1883S. C. Hall Retrosp. II. 143 The dark cloud thus early cast on her life continued to overshadow it for many years.
fig.1574tr. Marlorat's Apocalips 5 Wrapped in mysticall figures, and ouershadowed with images. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. II. vii. 141 Those misfortunes which were soon to overshadow her. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel v. 255 One prophecy of woe overshadowed all the later years of David.
2. To cover or overspread with some influence, as with a shadow; to shelter, protect.
c825Vesp. Psalter cxxxix. 8 Dryhten meᵹen haelu minre ofersceadwa heafud min in deᵹe ᵹefehtes. 1388Wyclif Luke i. 35 The Hooly Goost schal come fro aboue in to thee, and the vertu of the Hiȝeste schal ouerschadewe thee. 1578Chr. Prayers in Priv. Prayers (1851) 502 Overshadow me in the day of battle. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. ii. v. §2 It may seem that when the Divine Spirit did overshadow the understanding of the Prophets, yet it offered no violence to their faculties. 1859Singleton Virgil II. 433 The queen's high name O'ershadows him.
3. To tower over so as to cast its shadow over; hence, to rise above, ‘cast into the shade’, diminish the apparent eminence or importance of. [over- 1.]
1581Lambarde Eiren. iii. i. (1588) 327 The authoritie of the undershirife, is ouershadowed by the Shirifes presence. 1601Dent Pathw. Heaven 244 Faith and infidilitie..striue to ouer-master and ouer-shadow one another. 1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. iv. (1614) 7/2 All their monuments..over⁓shadowed by the height of Beckett's tomb. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia ii. 24 A low pleasant valley overshaddowed in many places with high rocky mountaines. 1870Dickens E. Drood xi, No neighbouring architecture of lofty proportions had arisen to overshadow Staple Inn. a1862Buckle Civiliz. (1873) III. i. 42 It was natural that the Crown, completely overshadowed by the great barons, should turn for aid to the Church.
4. To shade or darken too much. [over- 27.]
1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iv. xx. 348 If Authours in painting his deeds do not overshadow them, to make them blacker than they were.
Hence overˈshadowed ppl. a.; also ˈoverˌshadow n. rare; overˈshadower.
1618Bacon Let. to King 2 Jan. in Cabala (1654) 9 No oppressors of the people, no overshadowers of the Crown. 1849C. Brontë Shirley ii. 22 The period..was an overshadowed one in British history. 1875McLean Gosp. in Psalms 330 Round about it, not a literal overshadow of mountains. 1878Mozley Ess. I. Carlyle's Cromwell 262 A man..who always would be his rival and overshadower. |
