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Webster 1913 Edition
Overplus
Webster 1828 Edition
Overplus
O'VERPLUS
,Noun.
Surplus; that which remains after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed. Take what is wanted and return the overplus.
It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away all which is the overplus of a great fortune.
Definition 2024
overplus
overplus
English
Noun
overplus (plural overpluses or overplusses)
- That which remains beyond what is necessary or required; a surplus.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- Where some for an over-plus, or supererogation have added this necessaity, that they must necessarily accompany them, as well in death, as in life.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXXXV:
- Thou hast thy Will, And Will too boote, and Will in ouer-plus.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12: