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Definition of Overelaborate
1. [v -RATED, -RATING, -RATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overelaborate
Literary usage of Overelaborate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... by overelaborate detail and neglect of powerful lines and planes. His management
of drapery is especially good. Among his works arc 'Mother's Love' ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"With a most intense desire to use his gifts and attainments for the edification
of saints and the conversion of sinners, his abstract and overelaborate way ..."
3. Estimates in Art by Frank Jewett Mather (1916)
"Of these charming confections our author is somewhat scornful, considering them
overelaborate in polychromy and embossing. Surimono are, as a matter of fact ..."
4. America in France by Frederick Palmer (1918)
"... to be kept upon the experts in every branch of construction in the SOS lest
their ambition and enthusiasm should lead them to overelaborate building, ..."
5. America in France by Frederick Palmer (1918)
"... to be kept upon the experts in every branch of construction in the SOS lest
their ambition and enthusiasm should lead them to overelaborate building, ..."
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