Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To measure or estimate too largely.
  • noun Excess of measure; something that exceeds the measure proposed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To measure or estimate too largely.
  • noun Excessive measure; the excess beyond true or proper measure; surplus.

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  • noun Excessive measure; surplus.

Etymologies

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over- +‎ measure

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Examples

  • It was Stamatis as a toddler, with the same gnarled face, the same stoop, the same overmeasure of aural hair, reaching up to the kitchen table and taking a dried pea from a wooden bowl.

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

  • If any one thinks this is overmeasure of praise, let him look at the “Letter H” school, now become a type, and see what he thinks of it.

    XIII. Justice to the Boy 1902

  • How can you preach fasting, you, who wish to deluge me with such an overmeasure of sorrow?

    Invisible Links Selma Lagerl��f 1899

  • If any one thinks this is overmeasure of praise, let him look at the "Letter H" school, now become a type, and see what he thinks of it.

    The Battle with the Slum 1881

  • Then fell there joy and bliss in overmeasure that night upon both palaces of the Canal Grande.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

  • Then fell there joy and bliss in overmeasure that night upon both palaces of the Canal Grande.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

  • "Not this rock only; his omnipresence fills," was "peculiar as having a distinct syllable of overmeasure."

    Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855

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