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ˌoverˈboiling, vbl. n.
[f. overboil v. + -ing1.]
A boiling over; an ebullition.
a1774Harte Vision of Death Poems (1810) 371/1 Or wild o'er-boiling of ungovern'd health. 1861W. S. Perry Hist. Ch. Eng. I. iii. 126 This may perhaps have been a little over⁓boiling of spite.
So overboiling ppl. a., boiling over; fig. excessively ardent or fervent.
1594Nashe Terrors of Night Wks. (Grosart) III. 257 With anie ouerboyling humour which sourseth hiest in our stomackes. 1670Dryden 1st Pt. Conq. of Granada Ded., A hero..of an excessive and over-boiling courage. 1682― Dk. Guise v. iii, Do these o'erboiling answers suit the Guise? 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. III. 19/2 A proof of the over⁓boyling genius of the Painter. a1814Spaniards i. ii. in New Brit. Theatre III. 209 Restrain Thy over-boiling wrath. |