ˈover-king, ˈoverking Hist.
[over- 2 b.]
A superior king; a king who is the superior of other rulers having the title of king.
| c 1200 Ormin 6906 Onnȝæn hiss aȝhenn oferrking Itt birrde himm wel abiggenn. a 1300 Cursor M. 11194 To mak knaulage wit sum-thing Til sir august, þair ouer-king. 1851 Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 516 His brother Gorm quarrelled with their King or ‘Over-king’. 1874 Green Short Hist. vii. §8. 433 The King of Connaught, who was recognized as overking of the island by the rest of the tribes. 1885 Freeman ælfred in Dict. Nat. Biog. I. 160/2 The over⁓king at Winchester [ælfred] understood the position of the over-king at Mykênê [Agamemnôn] so much better [etc.]. |