crow over

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1)  To  over (someone).
 * 2) * 1588 June, anonymous &#91;John Udall&#93;, “No Man to be Admitted to Church Office until by Sufficient Trial and Due Examination He is Found by the Eldership to be Fit”, in A Demonstration of the Trueth of that Discipline which Christe hath Prescribed in His Worde for the Gouernment of His Church, in All Times and Places, vntill the Ende of the Worlde: Wherein are Gathered into a Plaine Forme of Reasoning, the Proofes thereof; out of the Scriptures, the Euidence of It by the Light of Reason Rightly Ruled, and the Testimonies that haue beene Giuen therevnto, by the Course of the Churche certaine Hundredths of Yeares after the Apostles Time; and the Generall Consent of the Churches Rightly Reformed in these Latter Times: According as They are Alleaged and Maintained, in those Seuerall Bookes that haue bin Written Concerning the Same, [East Molesey, Greater London: R[obert] Waldegrave], 62049212 ; republished as, editor, A Demonstration of the Truth of that Discipline, which Christ hath Prescribed in His Word, for the Government of His Church, in All Times and Places, until the End of the World (The English Scholar's Library of Old and Modern Works; 9), London: [the editor], 2 August 1880,  4254679 , page 40, paragraph 4:
 * [They are] inferiors to the ministers of the word, as our aduersaries doe confesse, and is plaine also by the cannon lawe they crow ouer them as if they wer their slaues.
 * 1) * 1853 December,, “Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! or, The Crowing of the Noble Cock Beneventano”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, 1641392 ; republished in The Apple-tree Table and Other Sketches by Herman Melville: With an Introductory Note by Henry Chapin, Princeton, N.J.: ; London: Humphrey Milford, , 1922,  1862070 , page 249:
 * The cock frightened me, like some overpowering angel in the Apocalypse. He seemed crowing over the fall of wicked Babylon, or crowing over the triumph of righteous in the vale of Askelon.
 * 1) * 1853 December,, “Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! or, The Crowing of the Noble Cock Beneventano”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, 1641392 ; republished in The Apple-tree Table and Other Sketches by Herman Melville: With an Introductory Note by Henry Chapin, Princeton, N.J.: ; London: Humphrey Milford, , 1922,  1862070 , page 249:
 * The cock frightened me, like some overpowering angel in the Apocalypse. He seemed crowing over the fall of wicked Babylon, or crowing over the triumph of righteous in the vale of Askelon.
 * The cock frightened me, like some overpowering angel in the Apocalypse. He seemed crowing over the fall of wicked Babylon, or crowing over the triumph of righteous in the vale of Askelon.