Definitions
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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
overslip .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is notable in the dealings of men, when they make contracts and bargains, there is some good hour, some advantageous nick of time, which if overslipt and let go, either the price fails or the thing fails.
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But I would say something by Way of Use, though the time hath almost overslipt me.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
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This being overslipt in its twelve years old when he arrived.
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This being overslipt in its place, I thought meet here to inserte the same.]
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If I had overslipt the good occasion then in danger, I had been worthy to be hanged, and to be taken for a most lewd servant to her Majesty, and a dishonest wretch to my country. "
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If I had overslipt the good occasion then in danger, I had been worthy to be hanged, and to be taken for a most lewd servant to her Majesty, and a dishonest wretch to my country. "
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If I had overslipt the good occasion then in danger, I had been worthy to be hanged, and to be taken for a most lewd servant to her Majesty, and a dishonest wretch to my country. "
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If I had overslipt the good occasion then in danger, I had been worthy to be hanged, and to be taken for a most lewd servant to her Majesty, and a dishonest wretch to my country. "
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