overcloy
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overcloy (third-person singular simple present overcloys, present participle overcloying, simple past and past participle overcloyed)
- (transitive) To fill beyond satiety.
- c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
- A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways, / A scum of Bretons, and base lackey peasants, / Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth / To desperate ventures and assured destruction.
- c. 1587 (date written), [Thomas Kyd], The Spanish Tragedie: […] (Fourth Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for T[homas] Pauier, […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I:
- He neuer pleaſd his fathers eyes till now, / Nor fild my hart with ouer cloying ioyes.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “overcloy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)