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Definition of Oversway
1. v. t. To bear sway over.
Definition of Oversway
1. Verb. (obsolete) To hold sway over; to have power or dominion over, to rule, govern. (defdate 16th-19th c.) ¹
2. Verb. To overrule. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹
3. Verb. To cause (someone, someone's thoughts or intentions etc.) to go in a particular direction; to influence. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹
4. Verb. To overpower, overwhelm. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oversway
1. to bear down [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversway
Literary usage of Oversway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1879)
"... not only to capitulate, but to oversway those that had so received and relieved
them, began to pick ..."
2. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"When yon shall show good proof that Not oversway'd by passion or opinion.
Knows how to lead [your] judgment, then manly wisdom, Your wife, my sister, ..."
3. Narratives of Early Maryland, 1633-1684 by Clayton Colman Hall (1910)
"... not only to capitulate, but to oversway, those that had so received and relieved
them, Began to pick ..."
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