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Definition of Overstep
1. Verb. Pass beyond (limits or boundaries).
Generic synonyms: Go Across, Go Through, Pass
Derivative terms: Transgression
2. Verb. Be superior or better than some standard. "She topped her performance of last year"
Generic synonyms: Excel, Stand Out, Surpass
Derivative terms: Exceedance, Excessive, Top, Topper, Topper, Transcendence, Transcendency, Transcendent, Transcendent
Definition of Overstep
1. v. t. To step over or beyond; to transgress.
Definition of Overstep
1. Verb. (transitive) To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overstep
1. to go beyond [v -STEPPED, -STEPPING, -STEPS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overstep
Literary usage of Overstep
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"... while taking care in no respect to fall short of its requirements, steadily
refuse to overstep it. But when the question is of war, all the triumphs of ..."
2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Ancient philosophy did not overstep this dualism between the purposive activity
of the form, on the one hand, and the resistance of matter on the other. ..."
3. A New Malagasy-English Dictionary by James Richardson (1885)
"Used of that which is made to overstep something else, or translated from one
... To overstep, to transgress a law or command, to translate or interpret; ..."
4. Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1893)
"... do not overstep it, thus staving off some of the worst effects of opium-smoking.
Those who have yielded to it for years, and who are slaves to the pipe, ..."
5. The Idler in Italy by Marguerite Blessington (1839)
"... no two persons could well be more dissimilar. passionate warmth of the preachers,
so frequently lead them to overstep the propriety of their calling. ..."
6. A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes, Esq., from 1831 to 1847 by Thomas Raikes (1857)
"... overstep the mark in her interference. She was also a favourite of the Queen.
A scheme was made a short time ago by the chief physician of the Grand ..."
7. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1875)
"To overstep the boundary of current demand and glut the market, may be plying to
the speculator and to tho manufacturer, si tar as he combines speculation ..."
8. Amos Tuck by Charles Robert Corning (1902)
"We leave it where our fathers left it; and, though we regard it as the sum of
all evils, we shall yet overstep no law in our desire to see it exterminated. ..."
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