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overˈthink, v. Obs. in I; now rare in II.
†I. = OE. ofþyncan.
†1. intr. To seem not good; to displease, vex, cause regret or repentance; = ofthink; cf. also forthink. Chiefly impers. with dative of person.
c1200Ormin 8920 Ta þeȝȝ misstenn þeȝȝre child, & itt hem offerrþuhhte. Ibid. 19596 Iohan Bapptisste wisste itt wel & itt himm oferrþuhhte. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2350 Hure ouer-þoughte mykel more Þe wraþthe of hure fader þe kyng. a1350Cursor M. 2732 (Gött.) If schoe did it, hir ouerthoght [other MSS. for thoght]. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. ii. (Skeat) l. 69, I se well (and that me ouerthinketh) that wit in thee faileth.
†b. trans. To regret, repent. Obs.
c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 1721 Nou it is to late to ouer⁓think, As I haue brew, so most I drink. c1440J. Capgrave Life St. Kath. v. 951 Thei shul it ouerethynke If it be proued thei ȝoue hir mete or drynke. c1440Gesta Rom. xviii. 332 (Camb. MS.) One of hem seyde, ‘herith my counceill, & ye shull not ouerþink it’ [Addit. MS. forthynke].
II. From senses of over-, 1 (c), 26, 27, 23.
2. To think over, to consider. Obs. or arch.
c1477Caxton Jason 13 b, Whan I haue ouerthought these saide thinges I answere yow. c1489― Sonnes of Aymon xix. 418 Yf ye overthynke wel al, ye shall fynde that [etc.].
†3. To think too highly of, over-estimate. Obs.
a1618Sylvester Job Triumphant iv. 147 What man, like Job, himselfe so over-thinks? 1645Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith xxvi. (1845) 398 You may over-think and over-praise Paradise.
4. refl. To exhaust oneself with too much thinking.
a1652Brome City Wit iii. iv, Have you not overmus'd or overthought your selfe?
So ˈover-ˈthinking vbl. n., too much thinking.
1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 300 It was never their over-thinking which oppress'd them. |