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▪ I. ˈover-ˈlight, n. rare.
[f. over- 29 d + light n.]
Too much light, excess of light; also fig. So ˈover-ˈlighted pa. pple.; ˈover-ˈlightsome a. [lightsome a.2].
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1633) 239 Her chamber was over-lightsome. 1626Bacon Sylva § 871 We see that an Over-light maketh the Eyes dazzle. 1847Medwin Shelley II. 302 Had full time been allowed for the over-light of his imagination to be tempered by the judgment. 1874J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Par. Churches 184 Most churches are now either over-lighted or under-lighted.
▪ II. ˈover-ˈlight, a.
[f. over- 28 + light a.1]
Too light (in various senses); of too little weight; too frivolous; too easy, etc.; see light a.1
[c1400Rule St. Benet (E.E.T.S.) 1064 Not to lagh with ouer lyght chere.] 1538Starkey England i. iv. 122 Our law ys some what ouer-lyght agayn the accusarys. 1583Peele Commend. Verses in T. Watson's Centurie of Loue, If grauer headdes shall count it ouerlight, To treate of Loue. a1656Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 331 Giving over-light credit to this report. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 126 Such Soils are over-light, and very apt to be..parch'd up. 1908Daily Chron. 21 Apr. 4/4 Now and then he was a trifle..over-light in his treatment of opponents.
So ˈover-ˈlightly adv. (in early use chiefly in sense ‘too easily’).
[1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 3482 When þou ert over lyghtly wrathe, Or sweres and may noght hald þin athe.] 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 222 The x⊇. is ouerlyghtely mevynge of coloure and semblante. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. 434 They overlightly give credit to backbiters. 1843H. Rogers Ess. (1860) III. 82 To charge us with treating grave subjects over-lightly. |