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Excessive growth.

Excessively heavy.

To influence in an excessive degree; to have undue influence over.

To inform, fill, or animate, excessively. [R.] Johnson.

An excessive issue; an issue, as of notes or bonds, exceeding the limit of capital, credit, or authority. An overissue of government paper. Brougham.

Excessively jealous; too jealous.

To make excessively joyful; to gratify extremely.

To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. Dryden.

To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. As when a cloud his beams doth overlay. Spenser. Framed of cedar overlaid with gold. Milton. And overlay With this portentous bridge th…

To leaven too much; hence, to change excessively; to spoil. [Obs.]

An excessive load; the excess beyond a proper load.

Excessively logical; adhering too closely to the forms or rules of logic.

Excessively luscious.

Excessive; too much. [R.] Coleridge.

Excessively malapert or impudent. [Obs.] Prynne.

In an excessive manner; excessively. [Obs.] Wiclif.

Excessive measure; the excess beyond true or proper measure; surplus.

Excessive interference. "Justly shent for their overmeddling." Fuller.

Excessive merit. Bacon.

Excessively moist. Bacon.