Word Meanings - OVERTALK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To talk to excess. Milton.
Related words: (words related to OVERTALK)
- EXCESS
out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; - EXCESSIVE
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly, - MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell. - MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose. - HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.