a1586 Sir P. Sidney (1593) iii. 283 Finding her sonne ouer-apt to lay both condemnation, and execution of sorrow vpon himselfe.
1859 J. S. Knowles i. ii. 69 To thee..that hast neither eye To scan my looks, nor voice to echo me, Nor e'en an o'er-apt ear to catch my words.
2002 (Nexis) 14 June 90 The rather overapt comment that a 3-year-old child is ‘childlike’.