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Show OV them t Grew felves OVERMU CHNESS. #. /. [from over-much. Exuberance; fuperabundance. A wor not ufed nor elegant There are words that do as much raife a ftyle, a others can deprefs it; fuperlation and over-muchiefs amplifies. It may be above faith, but not abov Ben fonfon a mean OVERNLVGHT. 7. /. [over and night. Thi feems to be ufed by Shake/peare as qoun, but by Addifon more properly, a I have before placed it, as a noun wit a prepofition. Night before bed-time IfI had given you this at co.r-ught Shakefpeare She might have been o'erta'en Wil that fo confefles hea half his life hi ached every morning with reading men cwver-night Addifen To OVERNA'ME. @. a. [over and name. To name in a feries Ower-name them; and as theu nameft them w:ll deferibe them. Shakefpeare's Merch. of Penice Z% QVERO FFICE. . a. [over and office. To infult by virtue of an office This might be th this afs over-gffices fat of a politician whic Shakcfpeare's Hamlet OvEeROFFI'Ci0US. adj. [over and officions. Too bufy; too importunate This is an over-cfficions truth, and is always a 2 man's heels 3 fo that if he looks about him, h Coll iet muft take notice of it w. a. [over and pa/s. Zo OverPA'ss 1. To crofs 1 ftoo Which ‘When o Gave m on a wide river's bank muit reeds o'er-pafs a fudden Torriimond appear'd his hand, and led me lightly o'er. Dryd What have my Scyllas and my Syrtes done When thefe they over-pafs, and thofe they {hun Dryden 2. To over-look; to pafs with difregard The complaint about pfalm and hymn migh anfwer asit i Hooker as well be cver-pafft without an without any caufe brought forth 1 read the. fatire thou entitleft firft And jaid afide the reft, and over-paft And {wore, I thought the writer was accurft "That his firft fatire had not been his laft Harrington Remember that Pellean conqueror A youth, how all the beauties of the eaf ower-pafs'd. Milton He flightly view'd, and fightl 3. 'T'o omit in a reckoning Arithmetical progreflion demonftrates how faft mankind would increafe, over-pajfing as miraculous, though indeed natural, that example of th Tfraelites wh wer multiplied in two hundred an fifteen years, from feventy to fixty thoufan abl Ralcigh men 4. To omit prife not to receive not to com If the grace of him which faveth swer-paf fome, fo that the prayer of the church for the be not received judgment this w ma leav Hooker of righteoufnefs OverPA'sT. part. adj Gone; paft hidde to th [from ever-pafs. What can'ft thou {wear by now.? ~-PBy time to come. Shake[peare OverpA'Y a. [over and pay. reward beyond the price T [over and perch. @.a 7o Overpr'RCH To fly over love's light wings did I o'er-perch thef Wit T hove t over-look and peer. [ove @. 4 now out of ufe Do ower-pee Shake[peare's Hamlet turely to confider whether his ceffers be full, hi ople rich by a long peaceand free trade, not syer the petty traffickers prefJed with many busthenfome taxes That curt'(y to them, do them reverence. Shakefp . ‘f;"'no ""1 -'f::;c thf‘:}'r chi‘l(Air‘enL va}‘\ile they'bc- hold them through the vapours of affection, Wattom Ove And kept low fhrubs from winter's pow'rful wind Som other finner overplus of ftrengt ther whic tha in perfuafion doth arife locker's Preface A great deal too much of it was made, and th overplus remained ftill in the mortar L' Effrange It would look like a fable to report, that thi gentlenyun gives away all which is the ¢werplas of great fortune Addif Zo OverPLY . @. a. [over and ply. emplo too laborioufly ‘What fupports me h 70 OVERRA'TE Sandys's Fourncy fro In liberty's d [ower and po To outweigh Whether cripples who have loft their thighs wil float ; their lu ing able to waft up their bodies which are in others o oifed by the hinder legs ve have not made experiment Biown "The fcal O'cr-pois'd by darknefs, lets the night prevail And day, that lengthen'd in the fummer's" height Shortens till winter, and is loft in night Creech OverRPO1sE #./. [fro the verb. be over-tower'd portioned to our wants t h bu Rogers 7o OverrE'acH. w. g8 [over and reach. 1. To rife above mountains of Olympus, Atho, and Atlas, -reach : and furmount all wind§.and clouds Raleigh Sixteen hundred years after the earth was made it was over-flowed in a deluge of water in fuch tha the floods ower-reached the tops of the higheft mountains deceive 2. 'l' cumvent t beyond g Burness to cir A fagacious man is faid to have a long reach lai m brai th i fu it wants matter to prevent fo and dried it {s 6""f-'_'"2"b Shakefpeares or ower-reach'd utmoft vigour raife, and rais'd unite. Miltons A man who had been matchlefs hel In cunning, ower-reach'd wher leaft he thought To fave his credit, and for very fpigh Still will be tempting him who foils him fill. M" of tr a t a e c u t p e f n n e There i fkill betwixt fharpers to cwer-reach one another L Effranges Forbidding oppreffion, defrauding and suersreae ing one another, perfidioufnefs and treachery Tillatfone fo t'icy wh confident real or imaginary, and our temptations to our defires Woul ip arm have weak eyes, when the ground is covered wit {now, are wont to complain of too much light non it rather low than high ; for our defires will be pro ing "Shame to be overcome Milten's Paradife Lof As much light ower-povers the eye eftroy the new. Dryd temptations of poverty, it concerns the conveniences of our ftation T us no 1 hav 70 OVERPO'WER. w. 4. [ower and power. To be predominant over; to opprefs b fuperiority allow What more cruel than man, if he fee himfelf by power to over-bea ox able by fraud to cwer-reac the laws whereunto he fhould be fubject? Hao,'u:r Horace, in his firft and fecond book of odes, wa Not-t as a fire the former houfe o'erthrew Tha tha now kncw [ower and rate.) fea:'d, ) SN *Tis to b excefs ponderant weight Now in danger try'd w. a Th Pre till rifing, but came not to his meridian till th third. = After which his judgment was a o oife to his imagination He grew too c co be bold enough, for he defcended in his fo by flow degrees Some ower-poife of fway, by turns they fhare In peace the people, and the prince in war. Dryd Mortimers and in eftimating the proportion fit for us, to fi doft thou afk @. a To While vain fthows and fcenes you over-rate >N Ce 7o OVER?O1SE [over and ra] nk. To rate at too much , friend, t' have loft them over-ply'd adj It produces swer-rank binds and flender fortific are rank They are invincible by reafon of the over-pezrin O'veErpLUS. #. [. [ower and plus.] Su:plus ; what remains more than fuflicient 7 rA'NK S/f':fl/x'c tions of the other to land-ward Swift 70 OVERPRI'ZE. w. a. [ower and prize. To value at too high price Mountainous error wou'd be too highly heapt For truth to over-peer Shakefpeare's Coriclanus Thus yields the cedar to the ax's edge Whofe top branch ower-peer'd Jove's fpreading tree mountains that back the one And ower-prefs'd whole legions weak with fin Rofeommon, When a prince enters on a war, he ought ma argofies with portly fail You @. a. [over and Pref. Michael's arm main promontories flung The ocean over-peering of his lift Eats not the flats with more impetuous hatte Than young Laertes, in a riotous head O'er-bears your officers Watts's Logiey Having an excellent horfe under him, when h was over-preffed by fome, he avoided them. Sigymy Iti above T'o bear upon with irrefiftible force overwhelm ; to crufh For frony limits cannot hold love out. Shakefpeare 7o OVERPE'ER by Ged himfelf, that gives a convincing and dubitable evidence of the truth and divinity of it 7o OverPRE'Ss walls Reafo That thou haft wronged in.the time o'er-paft preflion of any propofition is made upo the min Pricr itt afcribe gwer-muc ma me goo it did fo rife and dwer-power i the earth, Wc; ward Infpiration is," when fuck 1 an over-powerin jm ett eve never have been, had they not been fiandiny: when By attributing over-much to thing Milton Lefs excellent, as thou thyfelf perceiv'ft With refpe& to the bleflings the world enjoys The hiftorians make thefe mountajng the fta e ards of the rife of the water; which the Cnd ett More than enough z / Lrnj" decrees to pafsagainft him AMilton felf outwitted by Crefar; e andbrokecaufeqwith manhim,'uv'ero0 powered him in thefenate Take this purfe of gold And let me buy your friendly help thus far Which I will swer-pay, and pay again Shake/pearc ‘When I have found it You have yourfelf your kindnefs over-paid Dryden He ceafes to oblige who can upbraid Wilt thou with pleafure hear thy lover's ftrains And with one heav'nly fmile ¢'er-pay his pains hi only. who governs the world, who knows all chings and can do all things; and can neither be furprifed nor ower-pewvered South After the death of Craffus, Pompey found him At Dejet not then fo swer-much thyfelf ‘Who haft of forrow thy full load befides. OverMU'cH O Vi OV We may no more fue for them than we Ca'; m r-lfldf o oa h u n a a f f e o li tel in their eaufe fion or be guilty of any other tran greb- Ky"[mf-m Such a principle is ambition, or a defire :yfd.a::!; by whic man vicious me are o-tler-.rmr.r.w ity a i c i na a i ur n a i na ura engaged contrary to thei ylA1 aoly and Yaudable courfe of aftion gloriou t Lewis was 10 tn John Had got a@n impreflio v t af ai wa that.h man deadly cunnin |