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over-Atlas

over-Atlas verb: to overburden more than Atlas, who was ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders.

Verb

over-Atlas (third-person singular simple present over-Atlases, present participle over-Atlasing, simple past and past participle over-Atlased)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To overburden more than Atlas, who was ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders.
    • O, favour thy glory though I have displeased thee with folly. I will not be so unweaponed jeopardous to overthrow both thy cause and my credit at once by over-Atlasing mine invention. That which I undertake shall be only to throw one light dart at their faces from afar, and exhort all able pens to...1593, Thomas Nashe, Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem

Forms of over-Atlas

third-person singular presentover-Atlases
present participleover-Atlasing
past participleover-Atlased
pastover-Atlased

Origin of over-Atlas

From over- + Atlas.

Questions about over-Atlas

What does over-Atlas mean?
Over-Atlas means to overburden more than Atlas, who was ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders.
What part of speech is over-Atlas?
Over-Atlas is a verb.
What is the past tense of over-Atlas?
The past tense of over-Atlas is over-Atlased.

Words near over-Atlas in the dictionary

  1. over-approximates
  2. over-approximating
  3. over-approximation
  4. over-approximations
  5. over-assured
  6. over-Atlas
  7. over-Atlased
  8. over-Atlases
  9. over-Atlasing
  10. over-awe
  11. over-burning

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