Meaning

(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To go beyond or above; to exceed..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To go beyond or above; to exceed.
2. (dialectal or obsolete) Something that goes across or over; a transition.

Example Sentences

Ye're straight and tall, handsome withall, But your pride overgangs your wit

But at the last it will overgang, Suppose that many think it lang.

"The trouble is overganging the profit. Read us one o' King David's psalms or canticles, then we'll go to our sleep wi' a song in our hearts."

Less dramatically, but packed with economic menace, Elizabeth Bathgate told George Sprot, 'for work what you can your teeth shall overgang your hands and ye shall never get your Sundays meat to the fore.'

… all such udall lands, quoy lands, and others, as was evictit frae them be his Lordship's courts of perambulation, and overgangs, holden upon the lands of the same and divers places thereof, mentioned most specially in his Lordship's court-books, he renounced the same accordingly.

Sometimes we can put our finger direct on the overgang.

[...] the preservation of adequate or established footpaths, the creation of new stiles or overgangs, in aid of the same object, in the fences required in the process of inclosure, and so forth.

Its palmbranch logo - "the earliest Christian symbol of triumph over death - and the "still half-Scandian dialect in 12 lines of stave-rime verse" all "announce the overgang from heathendom."

Word Forms

• overgangs
• overganging
• overganged

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Use overgang when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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