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ˈover-ˈold, a.
[over- 28.]
Exceedingly old, too old, antiquated. Hence ˈover-ˈoldness.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. pr. iii. 6 (Camb. MS.) Of which foolk the renon nis neyther ouer old ne vn-solempne. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 78 b, We who..haue departed from the oueroldness of the lawe written, and walke in newnesse of life. 1611Cotgr., Suragé, decrepite, ouer-old, growne farre in yeares. 1875W. Morris tr. Virgil's Aeneids viii. 509 My body over-old for deeds begrudged such government. 1883Ld. R. Gower My Reminisc. II. 140 Their children..have a delicate over-old look for their age. |