O'rethrow
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: O'rethrow is a verb meaning (poetic) Obsolete spelling of o'erthrow, alternative form of overthrow.
Meaning
(poetic) Obsolete spelling of o'erthrow, alternative form of overthrow.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
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