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ˌover-ˈhigh, a. and adv.
[OE. oferhéah: see over- 25, 28. Cf. MHG., Ger. überhoch.]
Exceedingly high; too high (lit. and fig.).
A. adj.
a1000Runic Poem 26 (Gr.) æsc byþ oferheah, eldum dyre. c1200Ormin 12061, & tatt wass oferrheh & all Unnfæle modiȝnesse. 1508Dunbar Flyting 188 And oft beswakkit with ane ourhie tyd. 1587Golding De Mornay xxxiv. 541 To esteeme more the bookes that are darke by reason of their ouerhigh stile. 1642Ld. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 300 Things may be carried with an over-high hand. 1897Daily News 31 Dec. 8/3 Before the sun was overhigh in the heavens.
B. adv.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxvi. §5 Men ouer⁓high exalted either in honor, or in power. 1627Drayton Miseries Q. Margt. 70 Their Ambition looking ouerhie.
So † overˈhigher (-heȝere) a., used to render L. superior; over-ˈhighly adv.
1382Wyclif Job xxxi. 21 What I saȝ me in the ȝate overheȝere. 1614Raleigh Hist. World 596 Neither of these two Authors is ouer-highly commended of trustinesse. |