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

overliness
overling
overlinger
overlingered
overlingering
overlingers
overlings
overlining
overlinings
overlip
overlips
overlit
overliteral
overliterary
overlitigation
overlive (current term)
overlived
overliver
overlivers
overlives
overliving
overload
overloadable
overloaded
overloading
overloads
overlock
overlocker
overlockers
overlocks

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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