ˈover-ˈloud, a. and adv.
[over- 28.]
Too loud; † exceedingly loud. So ˈover-ˈloudly adv.
| a 1000 Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 205/25 Clamosa, oferhlud. 1470–85 Malory Arthur iii. xii, She cryed ouer lowde, helpe me knyghte for crystes sake. 1819 Shelley Mask xvii, Like a bad prayer not over loud, Whispering—‘Thou art Law and God!’ 1870 Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 379 His armour's clinking seemed An overloud and clean unlooked for sound. 1887 G. Meredith Ballads & P. 81 Then the warriors, each on each Spied, nor overloudly laughed. |