OVERFLOWINGLY

Etymology

Adverb

overflowingly (comparative more overflowingly, superlative most overflowingly)

So as to overflow; very excessively or generously.

Source: Wiktionary


O`ver*flow"ing*ly, adv.

Definition: In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.

OVERFLOWING

O`ver*flow"ing, n.

Definition: An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.

OVERFLOW

O`ver*flow", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overflowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Overflowing.] Etym: [AS. oferfl. See Over, and Flow.]

1. To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm. The northern nations overflowed all Christendom. Spenser.

2. To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.

O`ver*flow", v. i.

1. To run over the bounds.

2. To be superabundant; to abound. Rogers.

O"ver*flow`, n.

1. A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation. Bacon.

2. That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance. Shak.

3. An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid. Overflow meeting, a meeting constituted of the surplus or overflow of another audience.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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