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ˈover-ˈgreedy, a.
[OE. ofergrǽdiᵹ: see over- 28.]
Too greedy, excessively greedy.
a1023Wulfstan Hom. xiii. (Napier) 81 Men..beoð ofer⁓grædiᵹe woruldᵹestreona. 1535Coverdale Prov. xxiii. 3 Be not ouer gredy of his meate, for meate begyleth and disceaueth. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. iii. 88 Their ouer⁓greedy loue hath surfetted. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Introd., Wks. (1851) 261 While he is so overgreedy to fix a name of ill sound upon another. 1741Watts Improvem. Mind i. xvii. Wks. 1813 VIII. 123 An over-greedy grasp does not retain the largest handful. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. v. 176 Some meat for the over-greedy foreigners.
So ˈover-ˈgreedily adv., too greedily.
c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. vii. 72 Þou failest in þinges taken, and ouergredely sekist consolacion. 1584Cogan Haven Health (1636) 215 To eat overgreedily..is hurtfull, and hindereth concoction. 1668Lond. Gaz. No. 246/2 Their infected Goods..being over-greedily seised on by some persons, twelve of them..died of the Contagion. |