Definition of Overcramming

1. overcram [v] - See also: overcram

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcramming

overcorrection
overcorrections
overcorrects
overcostly
overcount
overcounted
overcounting
overcounts
overcover
overcovered
overcovering
overcovers
overcoy
overcram
overcrammed
overcramming (current term)
overcrams
overcraw
overcraws
overcredulity
overcredulous
overcritical
overcritically
overcriticize
overcriticized
overcriticizes
overcriticizing
overcrop
overcropped
overcropping

Literary usage of Overcramming

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Journal of Education (1880)
"... resulted in a one-sided development of the understanding, and in the stupefying system of overcramming for which our rising generation is remarkable. ..."

2. The Child and Child-nature by Bertha Maria Marenholtz-Bülow (1889)
"... resulted in a one-sided development of the understanding, and in the stupefying system of overcramming for which our rising generation is remarkable. ..."

3. The Englishman and the Scandinavian: Or, A Comparison of Anglo-Saxon and Old by Frederick Metcalfe (1880)
"... suffocated by a plethora of knowledge, is typical of the fatal effects of overcramming imputed by men like Mr. Lowe to our universities. ..."

4. Free Trade in Capital: Or, Free Competition in the Supply of Capital to by Alfred Egmont Hake, O. E. Wesslau (1890)
"... in arousing desires and yearnings that cannot be satisfied; in overcramming underfed brains, and overtaxing feeble and starved bodies ? ..."

5. Proceedings of the Connecticut Medical Society by Connecticut Medical Society (1867)
"... skating, walking, rowing, calisthenics, and other gymnastic exercises which are partially in vogue, and less to overcramming the intellect. ..."

6. Breakfasts, Luncheons, and Ball Suppers by Major L, L ... (1887)
"... that any cook, old or young, might unravel—even a victim to School Board overcramming! The chapter devoted to wines, and how to bring them up to table, ..."

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