overhot

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ hot.

Adjective

overhot (not comparable)

1. Excessively hot.
   • 1821, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy‎, The Classics of Medicine Library, page 264:

     Laurentius assigns this reason, because the liver overhot draws the meat undigested out of the stomach, and burneth the humours.

   • 1883, The Independent 1883-08-30: Volume 35, Issue 1813‎, Open Court Publishing Company, page 1095:

     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 within, which is one of the strongest evidences that all things arose from a Divine Mind, in whose likeness we are created. By that correspondence alone is language possible, to be a means of intercommunication of man with man, and an important instrument for developing as well as for expressing thought. In this figurative sense of the words “drawing” and “driving,” we say that the child is drawn toward what is bright in color, sweet in taste, harmonious in sound, comfortable and pleasant to the sense of touch, and driven from the dull and dirty, the bitter and nauseous, the ill-odored, the harsh and discordant, the rough and prickly, the overhot or overcold.

   • 1923, The Saturday Evening Post‎, G. Graham, page 61:

     The newly made furniture would fall apart, spread; it would die at once in the heat as all furniture eventually must in houses overhot with steam.