At that time, moreover, that is in the ninth year after the aforesaid thousandth anniversary, the church at Jerusalem which contained the sepulchre of our Lord and Saviour was utterly overthrown at the command of the prince of Babylon.. . .
The Seleucids were in turn overthrown by the Sassanians who ruled an empire which included most of modern Iran as well as Mesopotamia.
And if we enter the interior of the edifice, who has overthrown that colossus of Saint Christopher, proverbial for magnitude among statues, as the grand hall of the Palais de Justice was among halls, as the spire of Strasbourg among spires?
Overshot water wheelOne with water fed on to the wheel over the top. Compare breastshot, pitchback and undershot.OverthrowDecorative fixed arch between two gatepiers or above a gate, often of iron.
 See also: Architecture, House, Capital, Church, Ground
  
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