o'erleap
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]o'erleap (third-person singular simple present o'erleaps, present participle o'erleaping, simple past and past participle o'erleaped or o'erleapt)
- (literary) Contraction of overleap
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
- The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step / On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, / For in my way it lies.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vii]:
- I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself / And falls on th' other.