overplied

Updated: May 14, 2025

Strange sounds, too, were heard, or were thought to be, by those whom anxious watching might not have left mentally undisturbed sounds, not only of some ringing implement, but also so they said half-suppressed screams and plainings, such as might have issued from some ghostly engine, overplied.

Herman Melville - The Piazza Tales

Lady Shaftesbury describes "the great, though unhappy, Handel, dejected, wan and dark, sitting by, not playing on, the harpsichord," and adds that "his light had been spent in being overplied in music's cause."

Edward J. Dent - Handel