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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1500-1666

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Overgo(e, Owergo(ne, v. P.p. -gone, -goon. [e.m.E. overgo(e (see Overga v.): cf. Ourgo.] a. To lat ourgo, to let pass. = Ourgo b. b. tr. To overcome; to overrun, infest. = Ourga 2, Overga 1. —a. 15.. Clariodus 1395.
Bot I no thing rehearse will … Of hir luif taikin, quhilk I let owergone
15.. Ib. iv. 2449. b.
I let owergo all sik prolixitie
1588 Calderwood IV. 656.
Punishment of vices which overgoe the whole land
1632 Aberd. Council Lett. I. 371.
He wald mak his entrie at Heydelberghe quhilk wes all overgone with the plasure
1666 Lauder Jrnl. 98.
Philip of Spaine who died August 1665 was owergoon with it [French pox], they say

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