over-old
English
Etymology
Old English ofereald, corresponding to over- + old. Cognate with Dutch overoud, German überalt.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌəʊvəɹˈəʊld/
Adjective
over-old (comparative more over-old, superlative most over-old)
- Too old.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 20, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- 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.
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