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atone(dictionary)

overarm (iou) and atone (iou)


overarm (iou)



overarm adjective, adverb, & noun. M19.
[from OVER- + ARM noun1.]
A. adjective.
(Of a throw, a delivery in cricket, a serve in tennis, etc.) performed with the hand raised above the level of the shoulders; (of a person) using such an action in throwing, bowling, or serving. M19.
Designating a swimming stroke in which one or both arms are lifted out of the water and brought forward and down to recover their original position; (of a swimmer) using such a stroke. L19.
b. adverb. With an overarm action. L19.
C. noun. An overhanging arm, esp. that which extends over the work table of a milling machine. E20.

atone (iou)



atone verb & noun. ME.
[Isolated early use from at one s.v. ONE adjective etc.; later (M16) back-form. from ATONEMENT.]
A. verb.
verb intrans. Become reconciled; come into unity or concord. ME-E17.
Shakespeare As You Like It Then is there mirth in heaven, When earthly things made even Atone together.
verb trans. Compose, appease, (differences, quarrels); reconcile, bring into unity or concord, (contending persons). M16-M19.
Milton The king and parliament will soon be attoned. N. Rowe Could I attone The fatal Breach 'twixt thee and Tamerlane.
verb trans. & intrans. Join in one; harmonize. E17-M19.
G. Chapman High built with pines, that heaven and earth attone. Ld Houghton Welcome such thoughts! They well atone With this more serious mood.
verb trans. Conciliate, propitiate, appease, (an offended person). E17-E19.
Pope So heaven atoned, shall dying Greece restore.
verb intrans. Make propitiation or amends (for an offence, an offender). M17.
Dryden If sheep or oxen could atone for men. E. Waugh The stewards..sought to atone for ten days' neglect with a multitude of un-needed Services. W. S. Churchill No administrative achievements,..no magnitude of personality, could atone to his former friends for his desertion.
verb trans. Expiate, make amends for (an offence, an offender). arch. M17.
R. B. Sheridan I will endeavour to atone the..errors. Lytton They endeavoured to atone the loss by the pursuit of Artabazus.
B. noun. Atonement. L16-M19.
atoner noun E18.