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over-read, v.|-ˈriːd|
[OE. oferrǽdan: see over- 16, 20, 22, 23.]
1. trans. To read over, read through. ? Obs.
c1000ælfric Hom. (Th.) I. 166 Oðþæt we ðone traht mid Godes fylste oferrædan maᵹon. ― Gram. xxviii. (Z.) 176 Perlego ic oferræde. c1375St. Augustin 1192 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 81 No mon miht'..His bokes alle ouer⁓rede. 1390Gower Conf. I. 191 Sche tok the lettres whiche he hadde, Fro point to point and overradde. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) ⁋⁋j, Let euery man beholde and ouer⁓rede this Booke. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. iii. i. 4 Trebonius doth desire you to ore-read (At your best leysure) this his humble suite. 1648Herrick Hesper., Dep. Gd. Dæmon, Nothing now but lonely sit, And over-read what I have writ.
2. To read over again, re-read.
c1489Caxton Blanchardyn xxxvi. 135 All ynough she red and ouered the sayd letters. 1636Earl of Cork in Lismore Papers (1888) Ser. ii. III. 255 He told me, he had read, and overread them, and weighed euery word in them. 1925W. de la Mare Two Tales 14 He was merely over-reading what he had read.
†3. To exceed or outdo in reading. Obs. rare.
1651Shirley To Edmund Prestwich, When you..speak your own free muse, My admiration over-reads my eye.
4. refl. and intr. To read too much, to injure oneself with too much reading.
1805H. K. White Let. to Neville White 16 Dec., I have over-read myself and I find it absolutely necessary to take some relaxation. 1884G. Allen Philistia I. 129 To let him run the chance of over-reading himself.
So ˈover-ˈread |-rɛd| ppl. a., that has read too much; † oveˈrreader, one who peruses.
c1449Pecock Repr. i. xx. 130 Of tho bokis the ouerreder and attentijf studier. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde Prol. B j, The vtilite & proffet whiche maye ensue, to the dyligent and attentyfe ouerreader therof. 1889Academy 4 May 305/1 For him, as for few in this overread age, literature meant the time-tested masterpieces. 1895R. le Gallienne in Westm. Gaz. 22 Oct. 2/1 An age that is over⁓read and over-fed. |
