overforce

Excessive force; violence.

Noun

  1. Excessive force; violence.
    • But fail'd with overforce, and whizz'd above his back. - 1822, British Poets, The British Poets, Including Translations, Whittingham, J. Carpenter, page 23:
    • The second part of the pamphlet contains Dr. Cockle's hypothesis respecting the cause of sudden death in this disease. We may say in passing, that we did not find the study of the first part to facilitate in any way the...
    • Thus we may suppose that, in an entirely natural way, the Supreme Overforce, while governing all creatures and all their actions, has developed in certain arthropods the habit of spinning tubes or cylinders as a...

Origin

From over- + force.