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Definition of Overstrained
1. overstrain [v] - See also: overstrain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overstrained
Literary usage of Overstrained
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Johnson's Materials of Construction by John Butler Johnson, Morton Owen Withey, James Aston (1919)
"If the overstrained bar is put under the opposite kind of stress (compression)
the yield point and proportional limit of the bar are lowered, they may even ..."
2. Conduct of Lawsuits Out of and in Court: Practically Teaching, and Copiously by John Calvin Reed (1885)
"I have observed that many advocates are prone to be overstrained or too logical
in essaying to show that the opposite testimony does not prove what is ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1850)
"... however, if it be founded in our nature, as an incitement to virtue, it ought
not to be ridiculed. [overstrained Politeness, or Vulgar ..."
4. Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1879)
"overstrained Politeness, or Vulgar Hospitality.—From the 'Tatler* No. 20.
Those inferior duties of life which the French call left petites morales, ..."
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