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Webster 1913 Edition
Overgive
Oˊver-give′
,Verb.
T.
To give over; to surrender; to yield.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
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overgive
overgive
English
Verb
overgive (third-person singular simple present overgives, present participle overgiving, simple past overgave, past participle overgiven)
- (obsolete, transitive) To give over, hand over, surrender; to relinquish. [from 15th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:
- For th'heavens have decreëd to displace / The Britons for their sinnes dew punishment / And to the Saxons over-give their government.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:
- (obsolete, transitive) To give up, terminate. [16th-17th c.]