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Webster 1913 Edition
Overlead
Oˊver-lead′
,Verb.
T.
To domineer over; to affront; to treat with indignity.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Definition 2024
overlead
overlead
English
Verb
overlead (third-person singular simple present overleads, present participle overleading, simple past and past participle overled)
- (transitive) To dominate; domineer over; oppress.
- 1891, Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Edward Strachey, William Caxton, Le morte D'arthur:
- I believe it well, false recreant knight, said Sir Gawaine, for thou hast many long days overled me, and us all, and destroyed many of our good knights.
- 1891, Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Edward Strachey, William Caxton, Le morte D'arthur:
- (transitive) To affront; treat with indignity.
- (transitive) To lead excessively or too much.
- 1981, Evandro Agazzi, Modern logic:
- If you overlead this question with too binding absoluteness requirements I am afraid that a satisfactory and not dogmatic answer will be rather difficult to find.
- 1981, Evandro Agazzi, Modern logic: