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Definition of Overlighted
1. overlight [v] - See also: overlight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overlighted
Literary usage of Overlighted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Architectural Development by Frederick Moore Simpson (1913)
"The church is now overlighted, but such would not have been the case when the
windows were filled with pierced slabs, especially if the glass were coloured. ..."
2. Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk by John Gibson Lockhart (1820)
"You sit, while minute follows minute uncounted and unheeded, in a state of painful
excitation, as if you were in a room overlighted with gas, or close under ..."
3. Play Production in America by Arthur Edwin Krows (1916)
"... and instead of modifying it, the director will raise all the other lights on
the scene to match, and so have an overlighted stage. ..."
4. Reminiscences Chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford Movement by Thomas Mozley (1882)
"NEWMAN'S well-known rooms, on the first floor near the chapel, communicated with
what was no better than a large closet, overlighted with an immense bay ..."
5. Stained Glass Tours in France by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill (1908)
"... pierced triforium and the great expanse of its clerestory, but, thanks to the
remarkably warm tone of the glass, we do not find it anywhere overlighted. ..."
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