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over flow

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1. Over-flownoun

   Inundation; more than fulness; such a quantity as runs over; exuberance.

   Etymology: over and flow.

   Did he break out into tears? ——
   In great measure ——
   —— A kind over-flow of kindness. William Shakespeare.

   Where there are great over-flows in fens, the drowning of them in winter maketh the summer following more fruitful; for that it keepeth the ground warm. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

   It requires pains to find the coherence of abstruse writings: so that it is not to be wondered, that St. Paul’s epistles have, with many, passed rather for disjointed pious discourses, full of warmth and zeal and over-flows of light, rather than for calm, strong, coherent reasonings all through. John Locke, Ess. on St. Paul’s Epist.

   After every over-flow of the Nile, there was not always a mensuration. John Arbuthnot, on Coins.

   If this softens not the expression, it may be ascribed to an over-flow of gratitude in the general disposition of Ulysses. , Notes on the Odyssey.

2. To Over-flowverb

   1. To fill beyond the brim.

   Suppose thyself in as great a sadness as ever did load thy spirit, wouldst thou not bear it chearfully if thou wert sure that some excellent fortune would relieve and recompense thee so as to over-flow all thy hopes. Taylor.

   New milk that all the winter never fails,
   And all the summer over-flows the pails. Dryden.

   2. To deluge; to drown; to over-run; to over-power.

   The Scythians, at such time as the northern nations over-flowed all Christendom, came down to the sea-coast. Edmund Spenser.

   Clanius over-flow’d th’ unhappy coast. Dryden.

   Do not the Nile and the Niger make yearly inundations in our days, as they have formerly done? and are not the countries so over-flown, still situate between the tropicks? Richard Bentley, Sermons.

   Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made, it was over-flowed and destroyed in a deluge of water, that overspread the face of the whole earth, from pole to pole, and from east to west. Burnet.

   Thus oft by mariners are shewn,
   Earl Godwin’s castles over-flown. Jonathan Swift.

3. To Over-flowverb

   Etymology: over and flow.

   1. To be fuller than the brim can hold.

   While our strong walls secure us from the foe,
   E’er yet with blood our ditches over-flow. Dryden.

   Had I the same consciousness that I saw Noah’s flood, as that I saw the over-flowing of the Thames last winter, I could not doubt, that I who saw the Thames over-flowed, and viewed the flood at the general deluge, was the same self. John Locke.

   2. To exuberate.

   A very ungrateful return to the author of all we enjoy, but such as an over-flowing plenty too much inclines men to make. John Rogers, Sermon 2.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of over flow in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of over flow in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

References

1. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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