overquell

From Middle English overquellen, equivalent to over- +‎ quell.

overquell (third-person singular simple present overquells, present participle overquelling, simple past and past participle overquelled)

1. (transitive) To quell or subdue completely; gain or have power over.
   • 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:

     What champion now shall tame the power Hell,
     And the unruly spirits overquell?

• “overquell”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.