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ˈover-ˈearly, adv. and a.
[over- 30, 28.]
Too early; premature; prematurely.
[c1400Rule St. Benet (E.E.T.S.) 11 Þe barne þat is done fra his modir milke ouir-arlike.] 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. v. §4 Another Errour..is the ouer-early and peremptorie reduction of Knowledge into Arts and Methodes. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh i. 56 Children learn by such Love's holy earnest in a pretty play And get not over-early solemnised. 1871C. Kingsley At Last II. x. 49 This over-early marriage among the Coolies is a very serious evil. 1922M. E. Christie Henry VI iv. 119 The young Henry..now found the responsibilities of government over-early thrust upon him. |