overmodest (overmodest)

Modest to exce ; bashful. It is the courtier's rule, that overmodest suitors seldom speed. Hales, Golden Remains, p. 143. overmoneyt, v. t. To bribe. [A nonce-word.] Some suspect his officers' trust was undermined (or over-moneyed rather), whilst others are confident they were betrayed by none save their own security. Fuller , Worthies, Lancashire, I. 558. overmoret (ō-vér-mōr'), adv. [ME., over + more.] Beyond; also; moreover. "And zut on poynt," quath Peers, "ich praye zow ouer Loke ze tene no tenaunt bote yf Treuth wolle a ente." Piers Plowman (C), ix. 35. more; And ouermore destreyned with sekene e Besyde al this he was ful grevously. Lydgate , Complaint of the Black Knight, 1. 134. [= D. over-