Meaning of over-Atlas | Babel Free

Definitions

To overburden more than Atlas, who was ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders.

obsolete, rare

Examples

“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.”

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