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overdone, ppl. a. (adv., n.)
(ˈəʊvəˈdʌn: stress var.)
[Pa. pple. of overdo v.]
A. ppl. a. Done too much (in various senses of overdo v.); carried to excess; exaggerated; overcooked; exhausted; overcome.
c1000ælfric Saints' Lives I. 20 Omnia nimia nocent, þæt is ealle ofer-done þing dæriað. c1175Lamb. Hom. 101 Þet is on englisc alle ofer done þing deriað. c1430How Wise Man tauȝt Sonne 87 in Babees Bk. 50 For ouer-doon þing vnskilfully Makiþ grijf to growe whanne it is no nede. 1774F. Burney Early Diary 18 Oct., With an over done civility. 1781J. Woodforde Diary 24 Sept. (1924) I. 322 It was a shabby dinner and overdone. 1853Dickens Child's Hist. Eng. II. xvi. 25 All the sandy prospect lay beneath the blazing sun burnt up like a great overdone biscuit. 1870Freeman Norm. Conq. (ed. 2) I. App. 698 The studied obscurity and overdone piety of the special panegyrist. 1964L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xx. 117 A finger like a Lyons sausage—slightly overdone. 1975B. Wood Killing Gift (1976) ii. iv. 75 The waiter..brought two plates of the overdone roast beef. 1977P. G. Winslow Witch Hill Murder i. 20 She was not fond of overdone hamburger.
†B. adv. Excessively. Obs.
13..Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. (E.E.T.S.) 609/631 Þe ouerdon gredi mon Beggeþ ofte his bred. c1440Jacob's Well 106 Sumtyme þou art to ouerdone mery, & sumtyme to ouyr-done sory & to ouyr-done hevy. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) vii. xxviii. 320/2 Moche of our nacyon is gylty in theft, & ouerdone moche blent with false couetyse.
†C. n. in phrase at overdone, at an excessive rate, to excess. Obs.
c1200Ormin 2575 Swa þatt nan þing att oferrdon Ne keppte ȝho to follȝhenn. Ibid. 4592 All þatt iss att oferrdon Itt drifeþþ fra þin herrte.
Hence † overˈdonely adv., excessively.
c1440Jacob's Well 137 Ȝif þou ȝyve þi stodye to ouyrdonly to temperall occupacyoun, for lucre. |