over-Atlas
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]over-Atlas (third-person singular simple present over-Atlases, present participle over-Atlasing, simple past and past participle over-Atlased)
- (obsolete, rare) To overburden more than Atlas, who was ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders.
- 1593, Thomas Nashe, Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem:
- O, favour thy glory though I have displeased thee with folly. I will not be so unweaponed jeopardous to overthrow both thy cause and my credit at once by over-Atlasing mine invention. That which I undertake shall be only to throw one light dart at their faces from afar, and exhort all able pens to arm themselves against thine atheistical maledictors.