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overparted

British  
/ ˌəʊvəˈpɑːtɪd /

adjective

  1. (of a performer) having been cast in a role that is beyond his or her abilities

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Whether he was overparted, or overworked, in the Pompadour atmosphere; or whether he succumbed to the "continual headache" of which he speaks in his letter to Hogarth, his health gradually declined.

From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Dobson, Austin

How now, Numps! almost tired in your protectorship? overparted, overparted?”

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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