overmeasure

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

OVERMEASURE, verb transitive overmezh'ur. To measure or estimate too largely. OVERMEASURE, noun overmezh'ur. Excess of measure; something that exceeds the measure proposed.
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