different between overly vs day

English

Etymology

over +? -ly

Adverb

overly (not comparable)

1. To an excessive degree.

   Parents can be overly protective of their children.

   • 1821, John Galt, Annals of the Parish, Philadelphia: M. Carey & Sons, Chapter 37, p. 214,^[1]

     […] considering the circumstances of my situation, I saw it would not do for me to look out for an overly young woman, nor yet would it do for one of my ways to take an elderly maiden, ladies of that sort being liable to possess strong-set particularities.

   • 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 30,^[2]

     It’s nothing short of wonderful how she’s improved these three years, but especially in looks. She’s a real pretty girl got to be, though I can’t say I’m overly partial to that pale, big-eyed style myself.

   • 1958, Robert Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel, New York: Del Rey, Chapter 11, p. 238,^[3]

     Your race is overly sentimental; it distorts your judgment.
2. (obsolete) Superficially.
   • 1566, Thomas Blundeville, The Fower Chiefyst Offices Belongyng to Horsemanshippe, London, “The true Arte of Paring, and shooyng all maner of Houes together […] ,” Chapter 5,^[4]

     […] let him not touche the quarters nor the heeles at al, vnlesse it be to make the seat of the shoe playne, & let that be done so superficially or ouerly as maye be, so shall the houes remayne alwayes strong.

   • 1604, William Perkins, A Commentarie or Exposition, vpon the Fiue First Chapters of the Epistle to the Galatians, Cambridge, Chapter 6, p. 482,^[5]

     These kinds of reproofes, not vnfitly may be compared to hotte or hastie healing salues, which drawe a faire skinne ouer a fowle wound; which because it is not soundly cured from the bottome, but ouerly healed vp, doth afterward apostemate or fistulate, and becommeth more dangerous and desperate then euer before.

   • 1678, George Mackenzie, The Laws and Customes of Scotland, in Matters Criminal, Edinburgh, Part 1, “Some Crimes punished amongst the Romans, which are not directly in use with us,” p. 347,^[6]

     […] I resolved here to touch overly even those crimes which are little considered among us, not only that we might thereby know the genius of that wise Nation; but that we may consider how far it were fit to renew amongst us these excellent Laws.

3. (obsolete) Carelessly, without due attention.
   • 1629, John Preston, The New Covenant, or the Saints Portion, London: Nicolas Bourne, Sermon 9, p. 51,^[7]

     […] you shall finde this, that all remissenesse, when a man doth a thing remissely, and ouerly, and perfunctorily, it argues alway a diuided intention, it is an argument that the whole minde is not set on it, but that the intention is distracted, and bestowed on other things:

   • 1728, Daniel Defoe, A Plan of the English Commerce, London: Charles Rivington, p. 60,^[8]

     If you expect the Poor should work cheaper, and not perform their Work slighter and more overly, as we call it, and superficially, you expect what is not in the Nature of the Thing.

4. (obsolete) With a sense of superiority, haughtily.
   • 1650, John Brinsley the younger, An Antidote against the Poysonous Weeds of Heretical Blasphemies, London: Ralph Smith, p. 3,^[9]

     The third [vice] is Arrogancie, and the fourth Pride, two vices neer a kinne, Cosen germans […] when men shall arrogate much unto themselves; looking overly and superciliously upon others.

Translations

Adjective

overly (comparative more overly, superlative most overly)

1. (obsolete) Superficial; not thorough; careless, negligent, inattentive.
   • 1602, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarium Sixe Bookes, London: Robert Dexter, Satire 3, p. 52,^[10]

     The curteous Citizen bad me to his feast,

     With hollow words, and ouerly request:

     Come, will ye dine with me this Holy day?

     I yeelded, tho he hop’d I would say Nay:

   • 1627, Robert Sanderson, Ten Sermons, London: R. Dawlman, Sermon 3, p. 120,^[11]

     Hee prayeth but with an ouerly desire, and not from the deepe of his heart, that will not bend his endeauours withall to obtaine what he desireth:

   • 1762, Henry Home, Lord Kames, Elements of Criticism, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Volume 1, Chapter 2, Part 7, p. 222,^[12]

     Concerning the passions in particular, however irregular, headstrong, and perverse, in an overly view, they may appear, I propose to show, that they are by nature adjusted and tempered with admirable wisdom, for the good of society as well as for private good.

2. (obsolete) Having a sense of superiority, haughty.
   • 1637, Joseph Hall, The Remedy of Prophanenesse, London: Nathanael Butter, Book 1, Section 8, p. 66,^[13]

     Those that know no better, may rejoyce and exult in these worldly contentments; but those, who have had but a blink of the beauty of heaven, can look upon them no otherwise, than with an overly contemptuousnesse.

3. (obsolete) Excessive; too great.
   • 1839, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Notes on Baxter’s Life of Himself” in Henry Nelson Coleridge (ed.), The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: W. Pickering, Volume 4, p. 140,^[14]

     […] there appears a very chilling want of open-heartedness on the part of Owen, produced perhaps by the somewhat overly and certainly most ungracious resentments of Baxter.

Usage notes

The word is sometimes deemed erroneous. The American source M-W's Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, 1989, eventually settles on accepting it, but has this to say: "Bache 1869 and Ayres 1881 succinctly insulted contemporaries who used this word, calling them vulgar and unschooled. Times have changed: modern critics merely insult the word itself. Follett 1966, for example, claims that overly is useless, superfluous, and unharmonious, and should be replaced by the prefix over-. Bryson 1984 adds that 'when this becomes overinelegant ... the alternative is to find another adverb [...]'." The prefix over- is safer, and accepted by all: "He seemed over-anxious." M-W, AHD4, and RH include the word without comment, and OED notes only "After the Old English period, rare (outside Scotland and North America) until the 20th cent." In most cases "too" or "excessively" would be better choices than "over-".

Anagrams

• lovyer, volery, volyer

English

Alternative forms

• daie, daye (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English day, from Old English dæ? (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?og??-o-s, from *d?eg??- (“to burn”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dai (“day”), West Frisian dei (“day”), Dutch dag (“day”), German Low German Dag (“day”), Alemannic German Däi (“day”), German Tag (“day”), Swedish, Norwegian and Danish dag (“day”), Icelandic dagur (“day”). Cognate also with Albanian djeg (“to burn”), Lithuanian degti (“to burn”), Tocharian A tsäk-, Russian ???? (že??, “to burn”) from *degti, ?????? (djógot?, “tar, pitch”), Sanskrit ??? (d?há, “heat”), ???? (dáhati, “to burn”), Latin fove? (“to warm, keep warm, incubate”).

Latin di?s is a false cognate; it derives from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?, IPA^(key): /de?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: dey

Noun

day (plural days)

1. Any period of 24 hours.

2. A period from midnight to the following midnight.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:day

3. (astronomy) Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth).

4. The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
5. Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime.

   Synonyms: daylight, upsun; see also Thesaurus:daytime

   Antonyms: night; see also Thesaurus:nighttime

6. A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.

   • This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.

   • If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, at least they did not have less.

   Synonyms: era, epoch; see also Thesaurus:era

7. A period of contention of a day or less.

8. (meteorology) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: dei

Translations

See day/translations § Noun.

References

• Day (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

day (third-person singular simple present days, present participle daying, simple past and past participle dayed)

1. (rare, intransitive) To spend a day (in a place).

See also

• (days of the week) day of the week; Sunday,? Monday,? Tuesday,? Wednesday,? Thursday,? Friday,? Saturday ^{(Category: en:Days of the week) [edit]}
• Sabbath
• calendar

Anagrams

• d'ya, y'ad, yad

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Common Turkic *d?y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d?j]

Noun

day (definite accusative day?, plural daylar)

1. colt, foal

Declension

Derived terms

• dayça

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) , “ta:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Further reading

• “day” in Obastan.com.

Cebuano

Etymology

Initial clipping of inday.

Pronunciation

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /?d?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Hyphenation: day

Noun

day

1. (colloquial) A familiar address to a girl.
2. A familiar address to a daughter.

Kalasha

Verb

day

1. I am

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English dæ?, from Proto-West Germanic *dag

Alternative forms

• dai, dæi, dey, da?, dæ?, dei, daye, da??, da?h, dai?, *dah

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /daj/, /d?j/
• IPA^(key): /d?i?/

Noun

day (plural dayes or days or dawes)

1. day (composed of 24 hours)

2. day (as opposed to night)

3. daylight, sunlight
4. epoch, age, period
5. A certain day.

Antonyms

• nyght

Related terms

Descendants

• English: day
• Scots: day
• Yola: dei, die

References

• “dai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

day

1. Alternative form of þei (“they”)

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English day

Noun

day (plural days)

1. day
2. (in the definite singular) today