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Definition of Overfine
1. too refined [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overfine
Literary usage of Overfine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"Some of the synonyms are the direct result of mistakes other than that of drawing
overfine distinctions. To enumerate the countless causes for these errors ..."
2. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone by John Morley (1904)
"Then to the fine (qy. overfine?) board school, where addresses were presented
and I spoke over half an hour on politics. After luncheon to the town hall; ..."
3. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone by John Morley (1911)
"Then to the fine (qy. overfine?) board school, where addresses were presented
and I spoke over half an hour on politics. After luncheon to the town hall; ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1893)
"It has been found experimentally that the muscle-fibers are more easily digested
if not in a state of overfine division ; the stomach then retains them ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"This new school of overfine elaboration in England, is to my mind as bad as the
careless commonness of America. I do not refer to the American authors, ..."
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