o'rethrow

English

Verb

o'rethrow (third-person singular simple present o'rethrows, present participle o'rethrowing, simple past o'rethrew, past participle o'rethrown)

1. (poetic) Obsolete spelling of o'erthrow.; Alternative form of overthrow
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 131, column 2:

     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.

   • 1679, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, translated by Edward Sherburne, Troades: Or The Royal Captives. A Tragedy, Written Originally in Latin, […], London: Printed by Anne Godbid, and John Playford, for Samuel Carr, […], →OCLC, act II, scene i, page 21:

     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.

   • 1681, Nahum Tate, “Medea to Jason”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Epistles, […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 193:

     No doubt but He that had ſo raſhly ſought
     Our Shore with the fierce Bulls unſpell’d had fought,
     And fondly too th’ Arms-bearing Seed had ſown,
     ’Till by the Crop the Tiller were o’rethrown.