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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
overslip .
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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.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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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. 1630-1705 1822
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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.]
Boing Boing 2008
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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. "
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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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. "
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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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. "
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1586b John Lothrop Motley 1845
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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. "
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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