overdrive (overdriv)

t. [ IMG:content-2021.png:[blocks in formation] An antidote against the over - estimation of Rubens. The Academy, Nov. 23, 1889, p. 345. overexcite (ō"ver-ek-sīt'), v. t. To excite unduly or exce ively. The same means incites nerves and muscles that are in active, but to be beneficial in this case must evidently stop short of overexciting or tiring them out. Buck's Handbook of Med. Sciences, IV. 656.