overskip
English
Etymology
Verb
overskip (third-person singular simple present overskips, present participle overskipping, simple past and past participle overskipped) (archaic)
- To skip or leap over
- to treat with indifference or ignore.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:
- the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip
References
- “overskip”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.