overparted
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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How now, Numps! almost tired in your protectorship? overparted, overparted?”
From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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
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