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ˈover-ˈlate, a. and adv.
[f. over- 28, 30 + late a.1, adv.]
Excessively late; too late.
A. adj. († Also in sup. over-latest.)
B. adv.
a.1574tr. Marlorat's Apocalips 14 But this ouerlate repentance shall nothing auayle them. 1640Bp. Hall Episc. i. i. 5 Such an act, as can scarce by expiated with floods of overlatest teares. 1649Milton Eikon. B iij, These overlate Apologies and Meditations of the dead King. 1958T. M. Stanwell-Fletcher Clear Lands 245 The diminishing supply of native animals..despite overlate measures of restocking and conservation.
b.1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 3455 And comes overlate tyl Goddes servise. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke xxiii. 193 b, Iudas ouerlate repenting him of his facte, honge himselfe. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon (1642) 77 Nor can it be said to have been accomplished over late. 1875W. Morris tr. Virgil's Aeneids vii. 597 And over⁓late the Gods thou shalt adore.
So ˈover-ˈlately adv.
1556Olde Antichrist 158 This mater is more newe and ouer lately done than to be denyed. |