单词 | overlade |
释义 | overladev. Now archaic. transitive. To load with too heavy a burden, to overload; to overburden. Now only in passive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)] > load > overload overladea1387 overpeise1581 overpoise1598 overset1645 overload1727 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > do (something) to excess [verb (transitive)] > apply in excess overladea1387 overseta1398 overfreightc1475 overburden1532 overload1553 cumulate1570 load1577 heap1582 overcharge1616 overdose1727 overstress1889 the world > matter > properties of materials > weight or relative heaviness > weight [verb (transitive)] > make heavy > add weight to > excessively or weigh down overchargea1325 overcarkc1330 overladea1387 chargea1398 laden1514 overburden1532 ladea1538 overload1553 overpressa1577 overweigh1576 surcharge1582 to weigh back, on one side, to the earth1595 overpoise1598 overweight1811 the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > empty > empty by scooping or ladling overladea1387 lade?1533 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 463 (MED) Þanne oþer men sterte into þat boot, and overladde [v.rr. overlade, overladede; L. pressa] it. c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 621 For men may overlade a ship or barge. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) 610 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 506 (MED) And yiff a tre with frut be ovirlade..Both braunche and bouh wol enclyne and fade. 1530 tr. Plutarch Gouernaunce of Good Helthe sig. Di As a Shyp which is ouerladen, that must nedes be dyscharged or synke to the botom. 1531 W. Tyndale Expos. Fyrste Epist. St. Jhon sig. C.iiv The bushopes..solde their penance to the riche, and ouerladyd the poore. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1602/1 One of the Kings shippes..was drowned in the myddest of the hauen, by reason that she was over laden with ordinaunce. a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1664) 44 Their fleece taken from them lest it overlade them, and grow too heavy. 1661 J. Godolphin Συνηγορος Θαλασσιος Introd. sig. [a5v] He may not over-charge or over-lade his Ship, nor stowe Goods above her birth-mark. a1706 J. Evelyn Direct. for Gardiner (1932) 69 Many trees with but a competent burden of fruit better than to be over laden. 1791 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 81 136 A camel, it is said, will not permit himself to be over-laden. 1834 J. W. Croker Let. (1884) II. xviii. 248 Get, if you can, new men, young blood..and throw aside boldly the claims of all the ‘mediocrities’ with which we were overladen in our last race. 1888 Mind 13 100 Prof. Müller might well have spared it to his readers, having before overladen his translation of Kant's Kritik with such a dead-weight of ‘Introduction’. 2000 Deutsche Presse-Agentur (Nexis) 20 Aug. The pride of Henry VIII's navy, the Mary Rose, was sunk by a simple gust of wind after being overladen with soldiers and its gun ports left open. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1387 |
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