overdare

over- +‎ dare

overdare (third-person singular simple present overdares, present participle overdaring, simple past and past participle overdared)

1. (intransitive) To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring.
   • 1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow[e], The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     Meete you for this, proud ouerdaring peeres,
     Ere my sweete Gaueston shall part from me,
     This Ile shall fleete vpon the Ocean,
     And wander to the vnfrequented Inde.

   • 1912, William Butler Yeats, The Countess Cathleen, Scene III, in Poems, London: T. Fisher Unwin, p. 59,

     When one so great has spoken of love to one

     So little as I, though to deny him love,

     What can he but hold out beseeching hands,

     Then let them fall beside him, knowing how greatly

     They have overdared?

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Rickard to this entry?)

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

• overdear, overread, read over