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▪ I. † ˈovereat, n. Obs.
[OE. oferǽt masc., f. *oferetan: cf. OS. ovarât, OHG. ubarâȥ.]
The action, or an act, of overeating; a surfeit.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xviii. 129 Behealdað eow ðæt ᵹe ne ᵹehefeᵹien eowre heortan mid oferæte & oferdrynce. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 63 Wiðtiȝing of est⁓metes, and oueretes, and untimliche etes.
▪ II. overeat, v.|ˌəʊvərˈiːt|
[over- 27, 22, 8. (An OE. *oferetan = OHG. ubareȥȥan, MHG. übereȥȥen, is not recorded.)]
1. intr. and refl. To eat too much, eat to excess, surfeit oneself with eating.
1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 43 Yet hath your fruit this blotte, to ouer-eate, And glutton-like to vomit vp their meate. 1678A. Behn Sir P. Fancy iv. iii, Nay, Sir, he hath overeaten himself at breakfast. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xiv, She has only overeaten herself—that is all. 1879[see most a. II. 5 e]. 1888Nye & Riley Railway Guide 8 My appetite is four sizes too large for a man of my height and every little while I over-eat. 1904[see over-drink v.]. 1944L. P. Hartley Shrimp & Anemone iii. 33 You must see that he doesn't..over-eat himself. 1946M. C. Self Horseman's Encycl. 291 A horse that from illness or some other cause is not being exercised will overeat. 1967[see over-drink v.]. 1972D. S. McLaren Nutrition & its Disorders viii. 158 The view, commonly held, that all obese people overeat has not been substantiated by several surveys.
†2. trans. To eat more than (another): in quot., by his cattle. Obs. (Cf. eat v. 6 b.)
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §123 Than shall not the ryche man ouer-eate the poore man with his cattell.
†3. To eat or nibble all over or on all sides.
fig.1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. ii. 160 The fragments, scraps, the bits, and greazie reliques, Of her ore-eaten faith are bound to Diomed.
Hence overˈeaten ppl. a. (see 3); ˌoverˈeating vbl. n.
1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. (1863) 105 She..sent me cakes with cautions against over-eating, and needle-cases with admonitions to use them. 1892Spectator 19 Mar. 403 The greedy dog, which continually falls ill from over-eating. |