overgrace

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ grace.

Verb

overgrace (third-person singular simple present overgraces, present participle overgracing, simple past and past participle overgraced)

To grace excessively.
- 1612 January 5 (first performance, Gregorian calendar; published 1619), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “A King, and No King”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  Though this be worse Than that you spake before, it strikes me not; / But that you think to overgrace me with / The marriage of your Sister, troubles me.

References

“overgrace”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.