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overweigh, v.|əʊvəˈweɪ|
Forms: see over and weigh.
[over- 22, 21, 26; cf. OHG. ubarwegan, MHG. überwegen, Du. overwegen.]
1. trans. To exceed in weight (physical or moral); to be heavier or weightier than; to preponderate over, overbalance, outweigh.
a1225Ancr. R. 386 Þeo þet mest luuieð, þeo schullen beon mest iblisced, nout þeo þet ledeð herdest lif, uor luue ouerweið hit. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Rom. 12 In all pointes Christes goodnes ouerwaigheth the offence of Adam. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. ii. iv. 170 Say what you can; my false ore-weighs your true. c1620A. Hume Brit. Tongue (1865) 9 This auctoritie wald over-weegh our reason. 1672Shadwell Miser 1, One kind look from you will over⁓weigh a thousand such small services. 1818M. W. Shelley Frankenst. viii. (1865) 106 If their testimony shall not over⁓weigh my supposed guilt, I must be condemned.
2. To overcome with or as with weight; to weigh down, overburden, oppress.
1577T. Vautrollier Luther on Ep. Gal. 78 Blessed is he..which can say, when sinne ouerwayeth him, and the lawe accuseth him: what is this to me? 1641R. Baker Chron. (1660) 56 One Raynerus,..crossing the Seas with his Wife..so with his iniquity overweighed the ship, that in the midst of the stream, it was not able to stir. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 105 The grief of her heart over-weighed her spirits. 1849M. Arnold Strayed Reveller, Who is he That he sits, overweighed By fumes of wine and sleep, So late, in thy portico?
3. intr. To weigh more than something else, to preponderate; to be over weight, weigh too much.
1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 47 Intellect, when darkness overweighs in it, is torpid. 1887Chicago Advance 29 Sept. 613 If a letter overweigh, we are fined one shilling and eleven pence.
Hence overˈweighing ppl. a.; overˈweighingly adv.
1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. v. i, The means the overweighing Heavens Have kept to qualify these hot extremes. 1595Polimanteia (1881) 23 If..I ouerweyingly valew you at too high a rate. 1896W. Black Briseis xvii, This overweighing war of the elements that distracted his attention. |