overawe

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- French auvebor. English awe English overawe From over- + awe.

1. To restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow.

   “None doe you like, but an effeminate Prince, Whom like a Schoole-boy you may ouer-awe.”

   “His free and easy carriage evinced, that though acknowledging my assumptions, he was no way overawed by them; treating me as familiarly, indeed, as if I were a mere mortal, one of the abject generation of mushrooms.”