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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1594-1634
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Over-, Owergoing, vbl. n. [e.m.E. and ME. overgoing (Wyclif), transgression.] a. Passage across, crossing. b. The point of going over, the brink. —1594–5 Cal. Sc. P. XI. 528.
[He trusts to] impesche thair owergoing 1634 Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 126.
A man who was at the very overgoing of the brae, but God held a grip of him
