Definition of Overtaught

1. Verb. (past of overteach) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overtaught

1. overteach [v] - See also: overteach

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtaught

overtalk
overtalkative
overtalked
overtalking
overtalks
overtame
overtan
overtanned
overtanning
overtans
overtart
overtask
overtasked
overtasking
overtasks
overtaught (current term)
overtax
overtaxation
overtaxations
overtaxed
overtaxes
overtaxing
overteach
overteaches
overteaching
overtedious
overteem
overteems
overtempt
overtempted

Literary usage of Overtaught

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

1. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1873)
"We have very little sympathy with the fears of those who are afraid that our people may be overtaught. Unwisely taught they may be, and we fear they ..."

2. Report of the Royal Commission on the Mineral Resources of Ontario, and by Ontario (1890)
"It is for that reason that I am very strongly of opinion that applied science may be very easily overtaught, but that the fundamental principles of science ..."

3. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1904)
"Are not children already overtaught ? Will not this also teach theology instead of developing religion ? From our inability to find a place for religious ..."

4. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1906)
"There is hardly anything that pupils are required to put on paper, where supervisors can see it, that has not been overtaught, degraded and falsified by ..."

5. The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the by Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (1904)
"... but at length, he crying out Murder! and looking black in the face, the rope being overtaught about his middle, we thought proper to let him down again; ..."

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