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they re-charge us, as if in thefe things we gave the 
church a liberty which hath no limits or bounds. Hooker. 
I alfo err’d, in over-much admiring 
What feem’d in thee fo perfect, that I thought 
No evil durft attempt thee. Milton. 
OVER-MUCH', f. More than enough.—With refpe^ 
to the blelfings the world enjoys, even good men may 
afcribe over-much to themfelves. Greta. 
By attributing over-much to things 
Lefs excellent, as thou thyfelf perceiv’ft. Milton. 
OVER - MUCH'NESS, f. Exuberance; fuperabun- 
dance. Not ttfed, nor elegant. —There are words that do 
as much raife a ftyle, as others can deprefs it; fuperla- 
tion and over-muchnefs amplifies. It may be above faith, 
but never above a mean. B. Jonfon's Difeoveries. 
To OVER-MUL'TITUDE, v.a. To exceed in num¬ 
ber ; 
Nature would be furcharg’d with her own weight. 
And ftrangledin her wafte fertility : 
The earth cumber’d, and the wing’d air dark’d with 
plumes; 
The herds would over-multitude their lords. Milton. 
To OVER-NA'ME, v.a. To name in a feries.— Over¬ 
name them ; and as thou named them I will defcribe them. 
Shakefp. Merck, of Veit. 
OVER-NI'GHT, f. The time of the night paft be¬ 
fore going to bed.—Will confelfes, that for half his life 
his head ached every morning with reading men over-night. 
Addifon. 
If I had given you this at over-night , 
She might have been o’er-ta’en. Shahefpeare. 
OVER-NI'GHT, adj. On the evening before; at night 
before bed-time. 
To OVER-NOI'SE, v. a. To overpower by noife : 
No tide of wine would drown your cares; 
No mirth or mufic over-noife your fears. Cowley. 
To OVER-OF'FICE, v.a. To lord by virtue of an of¬ 
fice.—This might be the fate of a politician which this 
ais over-offices. Shake[peace's Hamlet. 
OVER-OFFIC'IOUS, adj. Too bufy; too importunate. 
—This is an over-officious truth, and is always at a man’s 
heels; fo that if he looks about him, he mult take notice 
of it. Collier on Reafon. 
To OVER-PAI'NT, v.a. To colour or defcribe too 
ftrongly.—Him whom no verfe o'er-paints. A. Hill. 
To OVER-PA'SS, v.a. To crofs : 
What have my Scyllas and my Syrtes done, 
When thefe they over paj's and thofe they lliun ? Dryden. 
To over-look ; to pafs with difregard.—The complaint 
about pfalms and hymns might as well be over-pajt with¬ 
out any anfwer, as it is without any caule brought forth. 
Hooker. 
I read the fatire thou entitlell firft, 
And laid afide the reft, and over-ptijl. 
And fwore, I thought the writer was accurft. 
That his firft fatire had not been his laft. Haringlon. 
.Remember that Pellean conquerour, 
A youth, how all the beauties of the eaft 
He llightly view’d, and flightly over-pafs'd. 31 ilton's P.R. 
To omit in a reckoning.—Arithmetical progreflion de- 
monftrates how fall mankind would increafe, over-puffing 
as miraculous, though indeed natural, that example of 
the Ifraelites who were multiplied in two hundred and 
fifteen years, from feventy to fixty thoufand able men. 
Raleigh.— To omit; not to receive ; not to comprife.— 
If the grace of him which faveth overpafs fome, fo that 
the prayer of the church for them be not received, this 
we may leave to the hidden judgments of righteoufnefs. 
Hooker. 
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OVER-PA'ST, part. adj. Gone paft 
What canft tliou fwear by now ?—By time to corn?.— 
That thou haft wrong’d in the time over-pajl. Shakefp. 
To OVER-PAY, v. a. To reward beyond the price : 
You have yourfelf your kindnefs over-paid; 
He ceafes to oblige who can upbraid. Dryden. 
To OVER-PEE'R, v.a. To over-look ; to hover above. 
Oat of ufe. —They are invincible by reafon of the over- 
peering mountains that back the one, and fiender fortifi¬ 
cations of the other to landward. Sandys's Journey. 
The ocean, over-peering of his lift, 
Eats not the flats with more impetuous hafte, 
Than young Laertes, in a riotous head, 
O’erbears your officers. Shahefpeare's Hamlet. 
Your Argofies with portly fail 
Do over-peer tliq petty traffickers, 
That curt’fy to them, do them reverence. Shahejpeare. 
Mountainous error would be too highly heapt, 
For truth to over-peer. Shakejpcare's Coriol. 
Thus yields the cedar to the axe’s edge, 
Whofe top branch over-peer'd Jove’s ipreading tree, 
And kept low Ihrubs from winter’s powerful wind. ShakeJ- 
To OVER-PER'CH, a. «. To fly over : 
With love’s light wings did I o'er-perch thefe walls, 
For ftony limits cannot hold love out. Shahefpeare. 
To OVER-PIC'TURE, v. a. To exceed the reprefen-' 
tation or pidture: 
She did lie 
In her pavilion, (cloth of gold, of tiflue,) 
O'er picturing that Venus, where we fee 
The fancy out-work nature. Shakej'peare's Ant. and Cleop. 
To OVER-PLY', v.a. To employ too laborioufly : 
What fupports me, doft thou afk ? 
The confidence, friend, to have loft them, cver-ply'd 
In liberty’s defence. Milton's Sonnet. 
To OVER-POI'SE, v.a. To outweigh.—Whether crip¬ 
ples who have loft their thighs will float; their lungs 
being able to waft up their bodies, which are in others 
over-poifecl by the hinder legs; we have not made expe¬ 
riment. Brown's Vwlg. Err. 
The fcale, 
O'er-pois'd by darknefs, lets the night prevail. Creech. 
O'VER-POISE, f. Preponderant weight.—Horace, in 
his firft and fecond book of odes, was Hill riling, but came 
not to his meridian till the third. After which his judg¬ 
ment was an over-poife to his imagination. He grew too 
cautious to be bold enough, for he defeended in his fourth 
by flow degrees. Dryden. 
Some over-poife of fway by turns they Ihare ; 
In peace the people, and the prince in war. Dryden. 
To OVER-POL'ISH, v.a. To finilh too nicely.—Aju- 
dicious ear would be offended with a ftyle over-pohjhed. 
Blackmail's Sac. Claffiics. 
OVER-PON'DEROUS, adj. Too weighty; too de¬ 
prefling.—Neither can I think that, fo reputed and fo 
valued as you are, you would, to the forfeit of your own 
difeerning ability, impofe upon me an unfit and over-pon¬ 
derous argument. Milton on Education. 
To OVER-PO'ST, v. a. To get quickly over.—You 
may thank the unquiet time for your quiet o'er-po/ling 
that action. Shahefpeare's Hen. IV. 
To OVER-POW'EE, v.a. To be predominant over; 
to opprefs by fuperiority.—Infpiration is, when fuch an 
over powering iinpreffion of any propofition is made upon 
the mind by God himfelf, that gives a convincing and 
indubitable evidence of the truth and divinity of it. 
Watts's Logic. 
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