Meanings
adjectiveoverlanguaged (comparative more overlanguaged, superlative most overlanguaged)
comparative more overlanguaged · superlative most overlanguaged
- nonce wordEmploying too many words; verbose.
That he was overlanguaged at first there can be no doubt, and in this was implied the possibility of falling back to the perfect mean of diction.
1876, James Russell Lowell, “Keats”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 322
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