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overrate, v.|ˌəʊvəˈreɪt|
[over- 26, 27, 22.]
1. trans. To rate too highly or above the real value or amount, to over-estimate; to give to (coins) a forced currency as legal tender beyond the intrinsic value.
1611Shakes. Cymb. i. iv. 41 Sir, you o're-rate my poore kindnesse. 1674Essex Papers (Camden) I. 226 Essex House is now to be sold, & valued at about 7000l...it seemeth to me not to be overrated. 1788J. Aikin Eng. Delineated 248 Its population has been greatly over-rated. 1858Ld. St. Leonards Handy-Bk. Prop. Law xx. 155 In disposing of your residue, neither overrate nor underrate its value.
b. To assess too highly for rating purposes.
1884Sir E. Fry in Law Rep. 13 Q. Bench Div. 376 A person who considers that he has been overrated by the quinquennial list.
2. Rowing. To row at a faster rate than (an opponent).
1960Times 4 Apr. 14/1 They [sc. Oxford] were still overrating Cambridge. 1961Times 10 July 4/6 Lady Margaret made no mistakes in the Ladies' Plate, snatched an early lead, and, always overrating Eton, came home by a length and a third.
So ˈoverˈrated ppl. a., ˈoverˈrating vbl. n., ppl. a.
1589Warner Alb. Eng., Prose Add. (1612) 339 The repentant payment of mine ouer-rated pleasure. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvii. 154 A foolish over-rating of their own worth. 1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 30 In regard to overrated and unjust claims. 1804A. Seward Mem. Darwin 114 A convalescent,..full..of overrating thankfulness to Miss S. for the offer she had made. 1879M. Arnold Falkland Mixed Ess. 208 Horace Walpole pronounces him a much overrated man. |