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Overgang
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- 1 Something that goes across or over; a transition. dialectal, obsolete
"… all such udall lands, quoy lands, and others, as was evictit frae them be his Lordship's courts of perambulation, and overgangs, holden upon the lands of the same and divers places thereof, mentioned most specially in his Lordship's court-books, he renounced the same accordingly."
- 1 To go beyond or above; to exceed. dialectal, obsolete, transitive
"Ye're straight and tall, handsome withall, But your pride overgangs your wit"
Etymology
From Middle English overgangen, from Old English ofergangan, from Proto-Germanic *uberganganą, made up from *uber (“over”) + *ganganą (“to walk, step”), equivalent to over- + gang (“to walk, step”). Cognate with Scots owergang (“to overwhelm, master, dominate”).
From Middle English *overgang, from Old English ofergang (“a going across”), equivalent to over- + gang (“a going”).
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