overhot

Adjective

overhot (not comparable)

1. Excessively hot.
   • Laurentius assigns this reason, because the liver overhot draws the meat undigested out of the stomach, and burneth the humours.1821, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, The Classics of Medicine Library, page 264
   • In the human mind both attraction and repulsion play; and here also, as in outward nature, the attraction is the stronger force. We are, however, not to forget that we here use the words in a figurative sense. We are availing ourselves of that correspondence between the world without and the world...1883, The Independent 1883-08-30: Volume 35, Issue 1813, Open Court Publishing Company, page 1095