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over-old
over-old
English
Adjective
over-old (comparative more over-old, superlative most over-old)
- Too old.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.20:
- And one Attalus in Seneca saith, the remembrance of our last friends is as pleasing to us, as bitternesse in wine that is over old […].
- 1875, William Morris, translating Virgil, Aeneid, VIII:
- My body over-old for deeds begrudged such government.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.20: