over-ˈrise, v. Now rare.
[over- 1 (b).]
trans. To rise over or above (a certain point).
| a 1350 Cursor M. 1838 (Gött.) Þe heiest montayn þat was aware [= awhare] Þe flod ouer ras [Cott. ouer raght, Trin. ouer passed] seuen elne and mare. 1862 C. Crosland Mrs. Blake II. 223 A sort of fixed high-water mark of their capabilities, which..they will never ‘over-rise’. |