Meaning of overslip | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond.
   transitive
2. To omit or neglect.
   transitive

Examples

“to overslip time or opportunity”

“Here I could breake out into a boundleſſe race of oratory, in ſhrill trumpetting and concelebrating the royall magnificence of her gouernement, that for ſtate and ſtrict ciuill ordering, ſcant admitteth any riuals: but I feare it would be a theame diſpleaſant to the graue modeſty of the diſcreet preſent magiſtrates; and therefore conſultiuely I ouerſlip it, […]”

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