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over-govern, v.|-ˈgʌvən|
[over- 2, 27.]
†1. trans. To rule over. Obs.
1470–85Malory Arthur i. vi, It was grete shame vnto them all..to be ouer gouernyd with a boye of no hyghe blood borne.
2. To govern too much; to subject to too much government interference.
1863Lowth Wand. W. France 205 He overgoverns his people, and so he makes them discontented. 1938Sun (Baltimore) 16 Apr. 8 For five years he [sc. F. D. Roosevelt] has overgoverned. It was not enough to have specific reform of specific evils, say, stock market practices. 1976Daily Record (Glasgow) 29 Nov. 14/2 Another sign of distrust is shown by the fact that nine out of ten replies believe that Scotland is in danger of being over-governed.
So over-ˈgoverned ppl. a.; over-ˈgoverning vbl. n.; over-ˈgovernment, (a) excessive government, too much government interference; (b) higher government or control.
1847J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) I. 131 The habitual over-governing by which power and importance are too exclusively concentrated upon the Government and its functionaries. 1848― Pol. Econ. II. v. xi. 529 The inferior capacity for political life which has hitherto characterized the over-governed countries of the Continent. 1861― Repr. Govt. iv. 83 The more popular the institutions,..the more monstrous the overgovernment exercised by all over each, and by the executive over all. 1861M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 11, I believe, as every Englishman believes, that over-government is pernicious and dangerous. 1894Rep. Unif. London in Westm. Gaz. 29 Sept. 5/1 Besides the over-government of the future Corporation, there must be subsidiary bodies to discharge local highway, sanitary, and other duties. 1976Times 13 May 4/2 Scotland is over-governed, over-taxed and over-subsidized. 1976Scotsman 15 Dec. 12/3 The Tories may have added to ‘over government’ by their reform of local government. |