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▪ I. † overˈthought, ppl. a. Obs. rare.
[pa. pple. of overthink v.]
Grieved, vexed.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 2219 Oc alle he weren ouer ðoȝt, And hauen it so to iacob broȝt.
▪ II. overthought, n.|ˈəʊvəˈθɔːt|
a. [over- 29 b.] Excessive thought, too much thinking. So ˈoverˈthoughted a., filled with excess of thought, over-weighed with thinking.
1839Bailey Festus ii. (1852) 17 This strange phantom comes from overthought. 1877Ruskin Let. to Faunthorpe i. (1895) 5, I..being in every way overworked and overthoughted. 1892E. P. Barrow Regni Evangel. iii. 73 Because overthought for the morrow is deprecated, is forethought, therefore, discouraged?
b. [over- 2 b.] Conscious thought; an explicit concept; = oversoul.
1883G. M. Hopkins Let. 14 Jan. (1938) 105 Two strains of thought..the overthought that which everybody, editors, see..which might for instance be abridged or paraphrased..the other, the underthought, conveyed chiefly in the choice of metaphors etc used and often only half realised by the poet himself. 1884W. James in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James (1935) I. 583 Those who must answer this question negatively are forced to the notion of an Over-thought behind the phenomenal real. |