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Hugg’d and embraced by the ftrumpet wind ! 
How like the prodigal doth (he return, 
With over-weather'd ribs and ragged fails, 
Lean, rent, and beggar’d, by the ftrumpet wind. Shakefp. 
To OVER-WEE'N, v. n. To think too highly ; to think 
with arrogance. To reach beyond the truth of any thing 
in thought; efpecially in the opinion of a man’s feif. 
Hanmer. —No man is fo bold, ra(h, and over-weening of 
his own works, as an ill painter and a bad poet. Dryden. 
Take heed of over-weening, and compare 
Thy peacock’s feet with thy gay peacock’s train ; 
Study the beftand higheft things that are, 
But of thyfelf an humble thought retain. Davies. 
OVER-WEE'NINGLY,«di>. With too much arrogance; 
with too high an opinion.—Till he himfelf had been in¬ 
fallible, like him whofe peculiar words he over-wecningly 
alTumes. Milton.'s Eiconoclaft. 
To OVER-WEI'GH, v. a. To preponderate.—Sharp and 
fubtile difcourfes of wit procure many times very great 
applaufe ; but, being laid in the balance with that which 
the habit of found experience delivered), they are over¬ 
weighed. Hooker. 
My unfoil’d name, the aufterenefs of my life, 
Will fo your accufation over-weig/i, 
That you (hall ftifle in your own report. Shake fprare. 
OVER-WEIGHT, f. Preponderance. — Sinking into 
water is but an over-weight of the body, in refpeft of the 
water. Bacon's Nat. Hijl. 
OVER-WEN'T, [ufed by Spenfer for] Overthrown : 
But he, like hound full greedy of his prey, 
Being impatient of impediment, 
Continued (till his courfe, and by the way 
Thought with his fpeare him quight have over-wcnt. 
Fairy Queen. 
To OVER-WING', v.a. To out-reach the wing of an 
army ; to out-fiank.—Agricola, doubting to be over- 
-winged, ftretches out his front, though fomewhat of the 
thinned. Milton's HiJl. of Eng. 
OVER-WI'SE, adj. Wife to affectation.—Make not 
thyfelf over-wife. Eccl. vii. 16. 
OVER-WI'SENESS, f. Pretended wifdom; fcience 
falfely fo called : 
Tell wit how much it wrangles 
In tickle points of nicenelle; 
Tell wifedome die entangles 
Herfelf in over-wifeneffe. Sir W. Raleigh. 
To OVER-WOR'D, v.a. To fay too much.—Defcri- 
bing a finall fly, he extremely over-worded and over-fpake 
himfelf in his expredion of it; as if he had fpoken of the 
Nemean lion. Hales. 
To OVER-WOR'K,«/. a. To tire.—It is fuch a pleafure 
as can never cloy or over-work the mind. South's Sermons. 
OVER-WOR'N, part. Worn out; fubdued by toil: 
With watching over-worn, with cares opprefl, 
Unhappy, I had laid me down to red. Dryden. 
Spoiled by time: 
The jealous o'er-worn widow and herfelf 
Are mighty goflipsin this monarchy. Shakcfpenre. 
To OVER-WRES'TLE, v. a. To fubdue by wreflling : 
Life recover’d had the raine, 
And over-wrcjlled his Arong enimy. Spenfer. 
OVER-WROU'GHT, part. Laboured too much.— 
Apelles faid of Protogenes, that he knew not when to 
give over. A work may be over-wrought as well as un¬ 
der-wrought : too much labour often takes away the 
ipirit, by adding to the polidiing ; fo that there remains 
nothing but a dull correftnefs, a piece without any con- 
liderable faults, but with few beauties. Dryden's Du- 
frejhoy. —Worked all over; 
Of Gothic ftrudure was the northern fide, 
O'er-wrought with ornaments of barbarous pride. Pope. 
It has in Shakefpeare a fenfe which I know not well how 
to reconcile to the original meaning of the word, and 
therefore conclude it mifprinted for over-raught ; that is, 
over-reaehed, or cheated. Juhnfon. 
By feme device or other, 
The villain is o'er-wrought of all my money: 
They fay this town is full of cozenage. S/tahcfpeare. 
OVER-YE'ARED, adj. Too old.—A maid whofe fruit 
was ripe, not over-yeared. Fairfax. 
OVER YS'CIIE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Dyle, on the river Yfche: ten miles fouth-eaft of 
Bruflels. 
OVER-ZE'ALED, adj. Ruled by too much zeal. Not 
in rife. —Thus was the good king’s judgment over-zcaled. 
Fuller's Holy War. 
OVER-ZEAL'OUS, adj. Too zealous.—It is not of 
fuch weighty neceflity to determine one way or the other, 
as fotne, over-zealous for or againfl the immateriality of 
the foul, have been forward to make the world believe. 
Locke. 
OV'F.RA. See Aweri. 
OVERAC'KEN, a finall ifland on the wed fide of the 
gulf of Bothnia. Lat. 63. 50. N. Ion. 20. 29. E. 
O'VERALL (John), a celebrated prelate of the church 
of England in the feventeenth century, was born about 
the year 1599. From the grammar-(chool he was fent to 
St. John’s College, in the univerfity of Cambridge, of 
which fociety he was elected a fcholar. Afterwards he 
removed to Trinity College, where he was chofen a fellow. 
In the year 1596, he was nominated regius profeffor of 
divinity, and took the degree of doftor in that faculty. 
About the fame time he was ele&ed mader of Catharine- 
liall. In 1601-2, queen Elizabeth, on the recommenda¬ 
tion of fir Fulke Greville, afterwards lord Brooke, his 
patron, promoted him to the deanery of St. Paul’s; Lon¬ 
don. Soon after the acceflion of king James I. he was 
chofen prolocutor of the lower houfe of convocation ; and 
in 1612 he was appointed one.Qf the fird governors of the 
Charter-houfe, then recently founded. In 1614, he was 
nominated to the fee of Lichfield and Coventry; from 
which he was tranfiated, in 1618, to that of Norwich;, 
where he died in 1619, about the age of fixty. He is. 
ranked among the bed divines of his time, and is faid to 
have particularly excelled in fcholadic theology. He 
maintained a correfpondence with Gerard VoiTius and 
Grotius, to whom letters from him may be feen in the 
collection, entitled “ Praedantium et eruditorum Viro- 
rum Epidolte ecclefiadicae et theologicae.” In this cor¬ 
refpondence he declares himfelf in favour of Arminianifm ; 
however, bethinks that St. Auguftine’s opinion of grace 
may be tolerated, but abfolutely condemns the dettrine 
of confining grace to the e!e£i alone. Indeed, he feerns 
to have paved the way for the reception of Arminianifm 
in England, where it was within a few years generally em¬ 
braced by the clergy of the edabliflied church, chiefly by 
the authority and influence of archbilhop Laud. He la¬ 
boured zealoufly to conciliate the differences which had 
been occafioned in Holland, by what is known by the 
name of the quimpiartieular contruvcify, and expreffed 
great concern for the unjufl and cruel treatment which 
the efforts and propofals of Grotius for peace had met 
with ; as appears in part from the correfpondence above 
mentioned. But our prelate is chiefly known in England, 
by the controverfy occafioned by Dr. afterwards bi!hop, 
Sherlock’s attributing his converfion from nonjuring 
principles, to a paflage in our author’s “ Convocation 
Book." Of the hiftory of this work we (hall lay before 
our readers the following account from bifliop Burnet. 
“ There was a book drawn up by bifliop Overall, four- 
fcore years ago, concerning government; in which its 
being of a divine inliitution was very pofitively aflerted. 
