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Definition of Overlive
1. v. t. To outlive.
2. v. i. To live too long, too luxuriously, or too actively.
Definition of Overlive
1. Verb. (transitive) To survive. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To outlive; live longer than. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To live too long. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) To live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overlive
1. to outlive [v -LIVED, -LIVING, -LIVES] - See also: outlive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overlive
Literary usage of Overlive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Estates, Future Interests, and Illegal Conditions and Restraints in Illinois by Albert Martin Kales (1920)
"Where the limitations are to A for life and "if B overlive A" then to B for life:
Here if the contingency be taken literally B has a contingent remainder ..."
2. Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English by John Walker (1823)
"... A-vdr-bire'. va to repress, to enough [down, to preponderate much weight or
power; to smother Overleap, A-vur-lepe'. u, a. to pass by a jump overlive, ..."
3. Publications of the Surtees Society by Surtees Society (1906)
"10/. if she overlive her husband, and if she dye before hin, the said sum to be
divided among her children; 40«. a pece to each of them. ..."
4. Publications of the Surtees Society by Surtees Society (1906)
"... for the use of my daughter, Elizabeth Bewick, 20/. ; and if she overlive her
husband or dye before him, the said sum to be divided amongst her five ..."
5. Utopia by Thomas More, Joseph Rawson Lumby (1908)
"For overlive, cp. Puttenham, Arte of English Poesie (Arber), p. ... overlive is
found also in Milton, PL x. 773. 10. to be rydde oute of it, ..."
6. "Out of the East.": Reveries and Studies in New Japan by Lafcadio Hearn (1896)
"... of the question was formulated thus: The Occidental can overlive the ...
overlive the Chinese, — no matter what might be the numerical disproportion. ..."
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