overglance
English
Etymology
Verb
overglance (third-person singular simple present overglances, present participle overglancing, simple past and past participle overglanced)
- (poetic, transitive) To glance over.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
- with a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles
References
- “overglance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.