"overthwart" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /əʊvəˈθwɔːt/ [UK] Forms: more overthwart [comparative], most overthwart [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English overthwart, overthwert, overtwert, overquert, overwhart, equivalent to over- + thwart. Compare Dutch overdwaars (“across”), Danish overtvært (“across”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|overthwart}} Middle English overthwart, {{af|en|over-|thwart}} over- + thwart, {{cog|nl|overdwaars||across}} Dutch overdwaars (“across”), {{cog|da|overtvært||across}} Danish overtvært (“across”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} overthwart (comparative more overthwart, superlative most overthwart)
  1. (obsolete) Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite. Tags: obsolete
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  2. (obsolete) Crossing in kind or disposition. Tags: obsolete Synonyms: adverse, opposing, perverse
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Adverb

IPA: /əʊvəˈθwɔːt/ [UK] Forms: more overthwart [comparative], most overthwart [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English overthwart, overthwert, overtwert, overquert, overwhart, equivalent to over- + thwart. Compare Dutch overdwaars (“across”), Danish overtvært (“across”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|overthwart}} Middle English overthwart, {{af|en|over-|thwart}} over- + thwart, {{cog|nl|overdwaars||across}} Dutch overdwaars (“across”), {{cog|da|overtvært||across}} Danish overtvært (“across”) Head templates: {{en-adv}} overthwart (comparative more overthwart, superlative most overthwart)
  1. (archaic) From side to side. Tags: archaic Synonyms: across, athwart
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Noun

IPA: /əʊvəˈθwɔːt/ [UK] Forms: overthwarts [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English overthwart, overthwert, overtwert, overquert, overwhart, equivalent to over- + thwart. Compare Dutch overdwaars (“across”), Danish overtvært (“across”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|overthwart}} Middle English overthwart, {{af|en|over-|thwart}} over- + thwart, {{cog|nl|overdwaars||across}} Dutch overdwaars (“across”), {{cog|da|overtvært||across}} Danish overtvært (“across”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} overthwart (plural overthwarts)
  1. (obsolete) That which is overthwart; an adverse circumstance; opposition. Tags: obsolete
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Preposition

IPA: /əʊvəˈθwɔːt/ [UK]
Etymology: From Middle English overthwart, overthwert, overtwert, overquert, overwhart, equivalent to over- + thwart. Compare Dutch overdwaars (“across”), Danish overtvært (“across”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|overthwart}} Middle English overthwart, {{af|en|over-|thwart}} over- + thwart, {{cog|nl|overdwaars||across}} Dutch overdwaars (“across”), {{cog|da|overtvært||across}} Danish overtvært (“across”) Head templates: {{head|en|prepositions|head=}} overthwart, {{en-prep}} overthwart
  1. (archaic, UK dialectal) From one side to the other of. Tags: UK, archaic, dialectal Synonyms: across, athwart
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          "text": "By and by after his iumping vppon them, the Saxons for that Garianonum, or Yarmoth that had giuen vp the ghoſt, in thoſe ſlymie plaſhie fieldes of Gorlſtone trowled vp a ſecond Yarmouth, abutting on the Weſt ſide of the ſhore of this great Yarmouth, that is, but feeling the ayre to be vnholſome and diſagreeing with them, to the ouerwhart brink or verge of the flud, that writ all one ſtile of Cerdicke ſands, they diſlodged with bagge and baggage, and there layde the foundatiõ of a third Yarmouth Quam nulla poteſt abolere vetuſtas, that I hope will holde vp her head till Doomeſday.",
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          "text": "So prowde of hart,\nSo overthwart,\nSo out of frame,\nSo voyde of shame, […]",
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          "text": "He had pass’d two or three Acts of Parliament, which had much lessen’d the Authority and Dependence of the Nobility, and great Men, and incens’d, and dispos’d them proportionably to cross, and oppose any Proposition, which would be most grateful; and that overthwart humour was enough discover’d to rule in the breasts of many, who made the greatest professions.",
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          "ref": "1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London: Canto 2, page 36:",
          "text": "For when a Gyant’s slain in fight,\nAnd mow’d orethwart, or cleft downright,\nIt is a heavy case, no doubt,\nA man should have his Brains beat out,\nBecause he’s tall, and has large Bones;",
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          "ref": "1876, William Long, Esq., Stonehenge and its Barrows. From the Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine, etc. [With maps and wood-engravings.], →OCLC, page 25:",
          "text": "[...] they are ioyned by two and two together, and every couple sustaineth a third stone lying overthwart, gatewise, which is fastened by the meanes of tenons that enter into mortaises of those stones not closed with any cement.",
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          "text": "So prowde of hart,\nSo overthwart,\nSo out of frame,\nSo voyde of shame, […]",
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          "ref": "1702, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Oxford, published 1717, Volume 1, Part 1, p. 83:",
          "text": "He had pass’d two or three Acts of Parliament, which had much lessen’d the Authority and Dependence of the Nobility, and great Men, and incens’d, and dispos’d them proportionably to cross, and oppose any Proposition, which would be most grateful; and that overthwart humour was enough discover’d to rule in the breasts of many, who made the greatest professions.",
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          "text": "We thinke the heavens enjoy their Sphericall\nTheir round proportion embracing all.\nBut yet their various and perplexed course,\nObserv’d in divers ages doth enforce\nMen to finde out so many Eccentrique parts,\nSuch divers downe-right lines, such overthwarts,\nAs disproportion that pure forme. […]",
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