overlight

Verb

overlight (third-person singular simple present overlights, present participle overlighting, simple past and past participle overlit or overlighted)

1. (transitive) To illuminate too brightly.
   • Dozens of times over the next two years, Officer Yan’s work brought him through the sliding glass doors into the overlit clamor of Kings County’s emergency room, one of the busiest in the city.2007 July 15, Andy Newman, “In Hospital Scrubs and Officer’s Blues, a Kinship”, in New York Times
2. (transitive) To illuminate from above.
   • Thus the stereotype is overlighted by the archetype, just as in conventional Egyptian statuary the historical pharoah is often shown standing under the god, the wings of Horus.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 215

Noun

IPA/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌlaɪt/

overlight (countable and uncountable, plural overlights)

1. excessive light
   • An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle, insomuch as perpetual looking against the ſun would cause blindness.1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced From Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers....
   • "The Lecture Hall was very tastefully decorated with palms and evergreens and the platform on which the statue of H. B. Blavatsky is placed had several wreaths of lotus flowers beautifully arrayed and the statue itself was bedecked with a profusion of the choicest lotuses and shone out, to great...1906, Mr. Yorick, The Theosophist, Volume 27, Theosophical Publishing House, page 700

Adjective

overlight (comparative more overlight, superlative most overlight)

1. (dated) Too light or frivolous; giddy.
   • Also that they be not overlight and wanton of behaviour.1654, Thomas Raynalde, The Birth of Mankind (Fourth Edition) (page 153)