overplyv.

Brit.

/ˌəʊvəˈplʌɪ/, U.S.

/ˌoʊvərˈplaɪ/

Inflections: Past tense and past participle overplied;

Forms: see over- prefix and ply v.²

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, ply v.²

Etymology: < over- prefix + ply v.²

Now rare (chiefly literary).

transitive. To ply or exercise too much; to exhaust by too much exercise.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > practice, exercise, or doing > practise or carry on [verb (transitive)] > exercise or put into practice (principle or quality) > excessively

overplya1674

a1674 J. Milton To C. Skinner upon his Blindness in Lett. State (1694) p. xlviii The Conscience..to have lost them over ply'd In Liberties Defence.

1753 Countess of Shaftesbury Let. 13 Mar. in D. Burrows & R. Dunhill Music & Theatre in Handel's World (2002) 287 It was such a melancholy pleasure..to see the great th'unhappy Handel dejected,..and to think how his light had been spent by being overply'd in musicks cause.

1824 S. E. Brydges Odo Count of Lingen iii. 40 He..downward bow'd, As if his task his strength had overplied.

1827 H. Taylor Isaac Comnenus iii. iii, in Wks. (1877–8) II. 265 The bungling sexton, overplied his task And buried us the epitaph.

1888 J. Martineau Study Relig. I. ii. 181 To let Being itself remain unreached till it comes out as an inference, to give the semblance of a reasoned result to the condition of every possible premiss..is to overply the resources of Dialectic, without escaping the idealistic tendency to throw around us a universe which is a mere reflection of ourselves.

Derivatives

ˌoverˈplied adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > practice, exercise, or doing > [adjective] > excessively

over-exercised1792

overplied1828

1828 T. Flint Life & Adventures Arthur Clenning I. iv. 184 The manifest impress of overplied exertion on his countenance vanquished her.

1858 Nat. Rev. Oct. 490 Her overplied strength worn down..by his children and the impossible problems of his house.

1993 Financial Times (Nexis) 1 Dec. 3 Bonn, he said, backed French calls for implementation of safeguard clauses on overplied [air] routes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	overply
释义	overplyv. Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈplʌɪ/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈplaɪ/ Inflections: Past tense and past participle overplied; Forms: see over- prefix and ply v.² Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, ply v.² Etymology: < over- prefix + ply v.² Now rare (chiefly literary). transitive. To ply or exercise too much; to exhaust by too much exercise. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > practice, exercise, or doing > practise or carry on [verb (transitive)] > exercise or put into practice (principle or quality) > excessively overplya1674 a1674 J. Milton To C. Skinner upon his Blindness in Lett. State (1694) p. xlviii The Conscience..to have lost them over ply'd In Liberties Defence. 1753 Countess of Shaftesbury Let. 13 Mar. in D. Burrows & R. Dunhill Music & Theatre in Handel's World (2002) 287 It was such a melancholy pleasure..to see the great th'unhappy Handel dejected,..and to think how his light had been spent by being overply'd in musicks cause. 1824 S. E. Brydges Odo Count of Lingen iii. 40 He..downward bow'd, As if his task his strength had overplied. 1827 H. Taylor Isaac Comnenus iii. iii, in Wks. (1877–8) II. 265 The bungling sexton, overplied his task And buried us the epitaph. 1888 J. Martineau Study Relig. I. ii. 181 To let Being itself remain unreached till it comes out as an inference, to give the semblance of a reasoned result to the condition of every possible premiss..is to overply the resources of Dialectic, without escaping the idealistic tendency to throw around us a universe which is a mere reflection of ourselves. Derivatives ˌoverˈplied adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > practice, exercise, or doing > [adjective] > excessively over-exercised1792 overplied1828 1828 T. Flint Life & Adventures Arthur Clenning I. iv. 184 The manifest impress of overplied exertion on his countenance vanquished her. 1858 Nat. Rev. Oct. 490 Her overplied strength worn down..by his children and the impossible problems of his house. 1993 Financial Times (Nexis) 1 Dec. 3 Bonn, he said, backed French calls for implementation of safeguard clauses on overplied [air] routes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1674
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