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Excessive; extravagant; inordinate. [Obs.]

Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy.

Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite. There lies ever in "obsequious" at the present the sense of an observance which is overdone, of an unmanly readiness to fall in with the will of another. Trench.

Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances; probability. "Preëminent by so much odds." Milton. "The fearful odds of that unequal fray." Trench. The odds Is that we scare are men and you are gods. Sha…

To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty. Wyclif. For thee, oppressèd king, am I cast down. Shak. Behold the kings of the earth; how they oppress Thy chosen ! Milton.

To utter foolishly or excessively; to surpass in babbling. [R.] Milton.

To prize beyong value, or in excess; to exceed in value. [Obs.] Shak.

To rage in excess of. [R.] Young.

Excessive presumption. [R.] B. Jonson.

Beyond; in excess of; in addition to; more than; as, it cost over five dollars. "Over all this." Chaucer.

To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part.

The state of being overanxious; excessive anxiety.

Anxious in an excessive or needless degree. -- O"ver*anx"ious*ly, adv.

Awful, or reverential, in an excessive degree. [R.] Milton.

Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent; as, an overbalance of exports. J. Edwards.

Excessively barren.

Excessively fertile; bearing rank or noxious growths. [Obs.] "Overbattle grounds." Hooker.

To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress. The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war. Bacon. Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell. Dryden. They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who goes out of…

To bend to excess.

To bid or offer beyond, or in excess of. Dryden.