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▪ I. overly, a. Obs. exc. dial.|ˈəʊvəlɪ|
[f. over adv. + -ly1. (Cf. ON. ofrligr excessive.)]
†1. Supreme. Obs.
1340Ayenb. 123 Hope [y-ziȝþ ine gode] ouerlyche heȝnesse and ouerliche mageste. Charite ouerliche guodnesse.
†2. Superficial; slight, careless, cursory. Obs.
c1425St. Mary of Oignies Prol. in Anglia VIII. 134/32 Þerfore I leeue alle þat proheme, excepte þis shorte ouerly touchynge. 1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. iii. iii. 2 The courteous citizen bade me to his feast, With hollow words, and overly request. a1668J. Alleine in Life (1838) v. 51 Have not I neglected or been very overly in the reading of God's holy word? a1769R. Riccaltoun Galatians (1772) 258 On an overly view, it may be thought nearly the same sense which way we take it. 1833Chambers's Edin. Jrnl. 27 Apr. 97/1 Some day, your wife mentions to you, quite in what Mrs Pringle called an overly way, that she happened to meet her old friend Mrs Nicholson on the street that day.
3. Supercilious, imperious, overbearing, haughty. Now only dial.
1627Bp. Hall Heauen vpon Earth §27 Wks. 97 Our answers are coy and ouerly. 1633― Hard Texts, N.T. 360 In an overly and imperious manner tyrannizing over the Church. 1707Humfrey Justif. Baxter. 4 The whole..is so overly, and appears proud, slighting, and does me wrong. 1820Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1839) IV. 140 The somewhat overly and certainly most ungracious resentments of Baxter. 1895Gloss. E. Anglia, Overly, arbitrary, tyrannical.
▪ II. overly, adv.|ˈəʊvəlɪ|
[f. over adv. + -ly2. OE. had oferlíce excessively: cf. prec.]
1. Above or beyond the proper amount or degree; overmuch, too much, too, excessively; = over adv. 11.
Apart from O.E., Sc. and U.S. until the 20th cent., often regarded as an Americanism in the U.K.
10..Wulfstan Hom. xiii. (Napier) 83 Nu ða yfelan and ða swicelan swa oferlice swyðe brædað on worulde. 1014Ibid. xxxiii. 166 note, Hu hi mid heora synnum swa oferlice swyðe god ᵹegræmedon. 1827J. F. Cooper Prairie I. ii. 28 To my eye it seems not to be overly peopled. 1830Galt Lawrie T. ii. vii. (1849) 63, I thought he was a little overly particular in his questions. 1833Fraser's Mag. VIII. 286 Elina was not overly pleased. 1854[see dogan]. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer. 305 ‘Is old man Boone rich?’ ‘Why, not overly so.’ Western. 1891Harper's Mag. Aug. 346/2 Mr. H. was not of an overly sensitive organization. 1894Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet 50 Half an hour of loneliness..was overly much for her. 1903Kipling Five Nations 21 Yet, caring so, not overly we care To brace and trim for every foolish blast. 1924B. G. Elliott Automobile Repairing x. 131 An overly rich mixture may be caused by the fuel nozzle valve being open too wide. 1926J. A. Muller Stephen Gardiner ii. 11 The intense, overly conscientious Thomas Bilney. 1929M. C. Work Compl. Contract Bridge v. 111 Overly sanguine or ‘bad break’ slam tries. 1942Sun (Baltimore) 10 Oct. 10/2 A panting, frantic lady..is..not overly generous after she has stood for a while..shouting for an invisible porter. 1956D. Karp All Honourable Men 50 She took one with an overly feline movement of her body and looked into his face as she accepted his light. 1963Wall St. Jrnl. 25 Jan., As for the future, however, even the most annoyed American official seems not to be overly alarmed. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 8/1 The Manitoba Minister of Agriculture is not overly impressed with the horsemen's woes. 1970Nature 17 Jan. 213/1 Scientists are not going to be overly interested in the ‘sociology of the sociology of science’ if nothing is forthcoming except internal disagreement. 1970G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard i. 27 Whoever had covered them hadn't been overly careful about the tubes. 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 2 June 624/4 Those overly rationalistic readers who demand to see in her work plentiful evidence of a higher or deeper ‘sanity’. 1977Dædalus Summer 157 This is the methodological point lying behind Popper's overly propositional thesis about the eternal falsifiability of scientific truths.
2.
†a. Superficially, slightly, carelessly. Obs.
c1440Promp. Parv. 373/1 Ovyrly, superficialiter. a1564Becon Comp. betw. Lord's Supper & Pope's Mass Prayers, etc. (Parker Soc.) 374 Beholding them as it were by the way, or overly. 1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) 52 If that men drain those Lands wherein they are like to have an interest, throughly, and those the Commoners have, more overly. 1710R. Ward Life H. More 143 Other things he look'd upon more overly and sparingly, as he saw Occasion. 1839P. Buchan in Whistle-binkie 117 He o'erly just speer'd for the men, But he cadgily cracket wi' aunty.
b. Incidentally, casually, not intentionally. Sc.
1825Jamieson, Overly,..by chance. a1904Mod. Sc. (Roxb.) I happened overly to say that I had seen him there.
†3. In position over, on the surface. Obs.
1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 43 It then ariseth vp againe to the waters top, and so keepeth ouerlie and aboue the waters highest superficie. 1573Tusser Husb. xxiii. (1878) 64 The strawberies looke to be couered with strawe Laid ouerly trim vpon crotchis and bows.
†4. Haughtily, superciliously, slightingly. Obs.
1610Bp. Hall Apol. Brownists i. 3 They vse to behold such as they oppose too ouerlie, and not without contempt. 1650Brinsley Antidote 27 To look overly upon others, despising and contemning them.
†5. (?) Moreover: = over adv. 10.
1599Life Sir T. More in Wordsw. Eccl. Biog. (1853) II. 165 And overlie this worde maliciouslie is in this statute materiall. |