o'rethrow

English

Verb

o'rethrow (third-person singular simple present o'rethrows, present participle o'rethrowing, simple past o'rethrew, past participle o'rethrown)

(poetic) Obsolete spelling of o'erthrow. (alternative form of overthrow)
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 131, column 2:
  Hath he not twit our Soueraigne Lady here / With ignominious words, though Clarkely coucht? / As if ſhe had ſuborned ſome to ſweare / Falſe allegations, to o’rethrow his ſtate.
- 1679, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, translated by Edward Sherburne, Troades: Or The Royal Captives. A Tragedy, Written Originally in Latin, […], London: Printed by Anne Godbid, and John Playford, for Samuel Carr, […], →OCLC, act II, scene i, page 21:
  The Tomb disburd’ning, whence the Ghoſt aroſe / Of great Achilles; Such when Thracian Foes / (The Prelude of thy Fates, Troy!) he o’rethrew, / And the white hair’d Neptunian Cycnus [i.e., Neptune’s son] ſlew.
- 1680, Nahum Tate, “Medea to Jason”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Epistles, […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 191:
  No doubt but He that had ſo raſhly ſought / Our Shore vvith the fierce Bulls unſpell'd had fought, / And fondly too th' Arms-bearing Seed had ſovvn, / 'Till by the Crop the Tiller vvere orethrovvn.