Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Overplus.
- noun The burden of a song or discourse.
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Examples
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Now more than ever do see noble birth o'ercome by fortune; for these, though sprung from noble sire, are suffering what they ne'er deserved.
The Heracleidae 2008
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No sooner had great Hector given us our quarters and told us the watchword than we laid us down to sleep upon the ground, o'ercome by weariness.
Rhesus 2008
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Now more than ever do see noble birth o'ercome by fortune; for these, though sprung from noble sire, are suffering what they ne'er deserved.
The Heracleidae 2008
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No sooner had great Hector given us our quarters and told us the watchword than we laid us down to sleep upon the ground, o'ercome by weariness.
Rhesus 2008
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So we thought for over a year how to make the deal appear when a fire and friendly choir seemed to o'ercome our fear.
Archive 2006-12-01 Ed Hollett 2006
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With standards well redeem'd, and foreign foes o'ercome
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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By the spirit, when age shall o'ercome thee, thou still shalt enjoy
Robert Browning: How to Know Him William Lyon Phelps 1904
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Like the doves do I moan, I am o'ercome with sighing,
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'O chaste virgins, winged visitants of flowery banks, whilst I prepared to sing your praise in lofty verse, at peep of day I was o'ercome by sleep, and then appeared a chorus of your tiny folk, and from their rich mellifluous haunts, in a clear voice these words flowed forth ....
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893
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Back to the house here I hurried, o'ercome with shame and vexation,
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892
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