overgang

Etymology

From Middle English overgangen, from Old English ofergangan, from Proto-Germanic *uberganganą, made up from *uber (“over”) + *ganganą (“to walk, step”), equivalent to over- + gang (“to walk, step”). Cognate with Scots owergang (“to overwhelm, master, dominate”).

overgang means To go beyond or above; to exceed. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

verb

To go beyond or above; to exceed.“Ye're straight and tall, handsome withall, But your pride overgangs your wit”

noun

Something that goes across or over; a transition.“… all such udall lands, quoy lands, and others, as was evictit frae them be his Lordship's courts of perambulation, and overgangs, holden upon the lands of the same and divers places thereof, mentioned most specially in his Lordship's court-books, he renounced the same accordingly.”