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Definition of Overstudied
1. overstudy [v] - See also: overstudy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overstudied
Literary usage of Overstudied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"The colour and cadence of Beckford's prose, which are natural, and also conscious,
but not overstudied, are of course better perceived in these books of ..."
2. Venice: Its Individual Growth from the Earliest Beginnings to the Fall of by Pompeo Molmenti, Horatio Forbes Brown (1907)
"Correctness of outline was held for coldness, and the productions of the
bronze-founder's craft became overstudied, fantastic, bizarre. ..."
3. Studies of a Litterateur by George Edward Woodberry (1921)
"Camillo is admirably drawn, and Bernardo in the last scenes is pathetic and real,
while Giacomo and Orsino, though overstudied for the parts they play, ..."
4. A History of Painting in Italy, Umbria, Florence and Siena, from the Second by Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1914)
"The figure betrays an overstudied elegance, and the drapery an unnecessary
repetition of folds in one direction. ..."
5. The Small Business Innovation Research Program: The First Decade (1993)
"The SBIR Program is the most extensively oversighted and probably the most
extensively overstudied Federal program there has ever been. ..."
6. Eliza Pinckney by Harriott Horry Ravenel (1896)
"The young man had overstudied himself, but a visit of some months to the continent
restored him. He returned to the Temple, was admitted to the bar, ..."
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