Dictionary

overplus en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈəʊvəplʌs/ (UK)

Etymology

From over- + Anglo-Norman plus, Middle French plus.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) That which remains beyond what is necessary or required; a surplus.
   • Thou hast thy Will, And Will too boote, and Will in ouer-plus. 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 135”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
   • VVith us they conſent in the Sufficiency of the Scriptures to ſalvation, in denying the Infallibility of the Church (much more of the Pope) the overplus of Merits, Service ununderſtood, Indulgencies, Liberaties out of Purgatorie, and the like. 1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Uncurable Breach betwixt the Eastern and Western Churches, with the Occasion thereof”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book IV, page 174:
   • I proposed that the two referees should retire and consider for themselves how much should be allowed for the boy's board and lodging, deducting at the rate of sixpence a day for what advantage was gained by his going on errands; and that the overplus should be restored. 1793, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 262
   • Where some for an over-plus, or supererogation have added this necessaity, that they must necessarily accompany them, as well in death, as in life. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

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Deriveds

overplusage