Crossword-Solution: OVERMEASURE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overmeasure | v. t. | To measure or estimate too largely. |
| Overmeasure | n. | Excessive measure; the excess beyond true or proper measure; surplus. |
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| to measure excessively | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in
some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue
of Hercules, or of a lion.
Hint 2 anagram
TSUTAE
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Sentences with OVERMEASURE (5)
Masson had studied the poets who preceded Milton as he has studied _him_, he would never have said that the verse "Not this rock only; his omnipresence fills," was "peculiar as having a distinct syllable of overmeasure." He retains Milton's spelling of _hunderd_ without perceiving the metrical reason for it, that _d, t, p, b,_ &c., followed by _l_ or _r_, might be either of two or of three syllables.
What ails us to fear overmeasure, To praise thee with timorous breath, O mistress and mother of pleasure, The one thing as certain as death? We shall change as the things that we cherish, Shall fade as they faded before, As foam upon water shall perish, As sand upon shore.
Victor could say nothing, for tearful rapture, except, "Have not then my good Agatha and the blind one yet arrived?"--And both stood--behind him; and he concealed the overmeasure of his bliss under the caressings of the sister and the friend; his capacious cup of sorrow was truly poured full of tears of joy.
Her heavy looks were often turned toward the hermitage-mountain; at evening she herself visited it, and brought to the sleeper the last offering which friendship has then to give, in overmeasure.
OVERMEASURE, [=o]'v[.e]r-mezh-[=u]r, _n._ something given over the due measure.--_v.t._ to measure too largely.