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Definition of Overgive
1. v. t. To give over; to surrender; to yield.
Definition of Overgive
1. Verb. (transitive) To give over, hand over, surrender; to relinquish. (defdate from 15th c.) ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To give up, terminate. (defdate 16th-17th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overgive
1. to give up [v OVERGAVE, OVERGIVEN, OVERGIVING, OVERGIVES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overgive
Literary usage of Overgive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1913)
"... This substitution WP and Walker rightly reject ; for examples of * overgive'
with the required meaning see N. E, Z)., iv overgive. a the sight of it. ..."
2. Reports of Cases Heard in the House of Lords on Appeals and Writs of Error by Richard Bligh, House of Lords, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1823)
"... surrender, overgive and deliver, as they " be thir presents resign, surrender,
overgive and " deliver, all and haill the lordship of Neidpath. ..."
3. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1895)
"... and in their names to resign, surrender, overgive and deliver, as they be thir
presents resign, surrender, overgive and deliver,all and haill ..."
4. Cases Decided in the Court of Session by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Shaw, Scotland, Court of Session (1826)
"... overgive, and deliver all and sundry the lands after * mentioned, &c. in the
hands of my immediate lawful superiors * of the same, ..."
5. The Scots Revised Reports: Court of Session, First Series... Containing Shaw by Patrick Shaw, John Rankine, William Harvey, Robert Berry, Scotland Court of Session (1900)
"... by staff and baton, as use is, to resign, surrender, overgive, and deliver,
as I by these presents resign, surrender, overgive, and deliver, ..."
6. Cases Decided in the House of Lords, on Appeal from the Courts of Scotland by Patrick Shaw, Charles Hope Maclean, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1839)
"... overgive, and deliver, like as I hereby resign, sur- " render, overgive, and
deliver all and whole the lands " and others particularly before described, ..."
7. Bamff Charters A.D. 1232-1703: With Introduction, Biographical Summary and Notes by Sir James H Ramsay (1915)
"If David die before his father, the latter will renounce and overgive in favour of
... predecease the said Fames, the latter is to renounce and overgive his ..."
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