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Definition of Overeater
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overeater
Literary usage of Overeater
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1919)
"I was further asked if he was an overeater and I replied that he was not. Then he
remarked that he did not see good things about the person, ..."
2. The Year Book of the United States Brewers' Association by United States Brewers' Association (1914)
"A man who is an overeater is not likely to live as long as some excessive drinkers.
In other words, a man's habits of eating, and whether he performs the ..."
3. The Year Book of the United States Brewers' Association by United States Brewers' Association (1914)
"... for statistics in the future, and that is to find out how much a man eats,
for oftentimes it is much more important. A man who is an overeater is not ..."
4. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"... who is known to be a habitual drinker or who is known to be an overeater, an
enlarged liver is always a suspicious indication of a beginning cirrhosis. ..."
5. The Supposed Death-rates of Abstainers and Non-abstainers and Their Lack of by Edward Bunnell Phelps (1913)
"... is an overeater is not likely to live as long as some excessive drinkers.
In other words, a man's habits of eating, and whether he performs the daily ..."
6. Differential Diagnosis of Internal Diseases by Milton Howard Fussell (1916)
"... who is known to be a habitual drinker or who is known to be an overeater, an
enlarged liver is always a suspicious indication of a beginning cirrhosis. ..."
7. The Laws of scientific hand reading: A Practical Treatise on the Art by William George Benham (1900)
"... it will make his cynicism less cutting : it will make a Jupiterian less of an
overeater, less domineering, less tyrannical, for it will refine him. ..."
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