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Verb
o'rethrow (third-person singular simple present o'rethrows, present participle o'rethrowing, simple past o'rethrew, past participle o'rethrown)
- (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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , 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.