OVERLIVING

Verb

overliving

present participle of overlive

Source: Wiktionary


OVERLIVE

O`ver*live", v. t.

Definition: To outlive. Sir P. Sidney. The culture of Northumbria overlived the term of its political supermacy. Earle.

O`ver*live", v. i.

Definition: To live too long, too luxuriously, or too actively. Milton. "Overlived in this close London life." Mrs. Browning.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

10 November 2024

INNOCENT

(adjective) free from evil or guilt; “an innocent child”; “the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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