The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overlive \O`ver*live"\, v. t.
To outlive.
--Sir P. Sidney.
The culture of Northumbria overlived the term of its
political supermacy.
--Earle.
Overlive \O`ver*live"\, v. i.
To live too long, too luxuriously, or too actively.
--Milton.
``Overlived in this close London life.''
--Mrs. Browning.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To survive. 2 (context transitive English) To outlive; live longer than. 3 (context intransitive English) To live too long. 4 (context intransitive English) To live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively.
Usage examples of "overlive".
Jesus Christ us send Husbandes meek and young, and fresh in bed, And grace to overlive them that we wed.
And he shouted with a great shout upon his men to charge the enemy, and suffer not a Witch to overlive that slaughter.
He lay with his head toward the window, and the sun shining into the room, with the tearful radiance of sorrows overlived and winter gone, when Molly entered.