Meaning of o'rethrow | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of o'erthrow, alternative form of overthrow.

alt-of, obsolete, poetic

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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