overaffect
verbEtymology From over- + affect.
1
To have too great an effect on.
2
Obsolete To care for unduly.
- if those that overaffect antiquity will follow the square thereof, their bishops must be elected by the hands of the whole church1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC: