overquell

verb

overquell

verb

Etymology From Middle English overquellen, equivalent to over- + quell.

1

To quell or subdue completely; gain or have power over.

What champion now shall tame the power Hell, And the unruly spirits overquell?1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:

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