overslip en · NOUN
Etymology
From over- + slip.
Meanings
- A kind of light overgarment, easily slipped on.
- (obsolete) An oversight, a mistake or neglect.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| overslips | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
overslip en · VERB
Etymology
From over- + slip.
Meanings
- (transitive) To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond.
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(transitive) To omit or neglect, to fail to mention.
Here I could breake out into a boundleſſe race of oratory, in ſhrill trumpetting and concelebrating the royall magnificence of her gouernement, that for ſtate and ſtrict ciuill ordering, ſcant admitteth any riuals: but I feare it would be a theame diſpleaſant to the graue modeſty of the diſcreet preſent magiſtrates; and therefore conſultiuely I ouerſlip it, […]
1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 6:to overslip time or opportunity
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| overslipping | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overslipped | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overslipped | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| overslips | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |