ppl. a. (UN-1 8 b.)
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), II. 394. Tha thocht aneuche for to defend thair awin Into sic thrang, and keip thame vnouirthrawin.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. xxii. Yet shewed it most the perfection of the beautie, which could remaine unoverthrowne by such enimies.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., I. (1626), 8. What such a force, vn-ouerthrowne, oppos’d, The higher-swelling Water quite deuoures.
1852. Clough, Poems, etc. (1869), I. 348. In the prostration to ancient tenets and habits the old character remains upright, unoverthrown and unsubdued.
