?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 223 Þe eiȝte & twentiþe, þat þei approprien not parische chirchis to ouer riche houses.

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xlvii. 282 We see howe euen Salomon was afraide to bee ouerriche.

1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. xiii. 54 Thus secure Troy was ouer-set, when Troy was ouer stoute, And ouer rich, was ouer-runne.

1661 Princess Cloria iii. 284 Shall our Records in after times speak the shame of our Nobility, because some would be over rich, and powerful amongst us?

a1706 J. Evelyn Direct. for Gardiner (1932) 56 Give the ground an halfe digging... Make it not over-rich.

1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Seventh 33 Not over-rich before, now beggar'd quite; More curst than at the Fall?

1808 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. III. 98 The famous Rout-giving over-rich Mr & Mrs Thompson.

1855 R. Browning Bishop Blougram 332 An uniform I wear though over-rich.

1909 Daily Chron. 17 Nov. 3/3 Vanity Fair is over-rich with those excrescences known as Bores.

1954 M. Rickert Painting in Brit.: Middle Ages iv. 92 The Virgin's draperies are not over-rich in folds.

1991 Newsweek (Canadian ed.) 18 Nov. 70/1 From blacks to whites, from machos to mothers, from the underclass to the overrich, Americans were overwhelmed by the statement of his plight.