1837 R. W. Emerson Misc. (1855) 78 Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence.

1863 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 279/2 Every man of the many who still stand ready to indorse everything signed by a D.D...is in part the victim of the over-influence they obtained.

1906 A. C. Benson Walter Pater vii. 214 The danger of the perfection to which he attained is the danger of over-influence, seductive sweetness.

1966 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Company I've Kept iii. 85 The Scottish public has been..debauched and distorted by English over-influence.

1990 Amer. Lit. 62 449 The narrator..suggests a solution to the problem of over-influence in the idea of literary federation.

1762 Biogr. Dict. X. 486 He owns himself to have been over-influenced to it by the powers above.

1884 Harper's Mag. July 280/1 Nobody charged Jefferson with being over-influenced by a set of inferior men.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 2 June 3/1 The painters have, we know, influenced and over-influenced the stage of late years.

1907 Philos. Rev. 16 143 It does so long as one is over-influenced by the incomplete analogy of the natural sciences.

1986 R. Pollack Teach yourself Fortune Telling 13 If you think your comments might frighten someone or over-influence their actions and choices, you had best keep silent.