Word: overstore Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + store. 1. To overstock; to save more than is needed. Example: This fish is long in growing; but breeds exceedingly in a water that pleases him; yea, in many ponds so fast, as to overstore them, and starve the other fish. Example: even the Ocean it self would have been long since over-stored with Fiſh 2. To attempt to store more than the capacity into which something is put. Labels: obsolete Example: On every hand flourish trees, in the prime of a full score of years, Nature's aviaries, which are preparing hereafter to overstore the fruiteries from their burdened boughs, and now diversify the prospect with green and shade. Example: When the gravity of the gyle is about 45 lbs. per barrel, and the temperature of setting 58° or 60° Fahr. (14°.4 to 15°.5 C.) , the atmosphere being at the ordinary temperature and barometric pressure, provided the yeast be of good quality, about 2 to 2 1/2 lbs per barrel will be sufficient, and it may happen that this quantity may in some cases overstore the tun. 3. To open more stores than the retail market needs. Example: This is an area of vast geography and great retail growth. We can't overstore it. Example: One can observe expansion-deterring investment in retailing, for example, where a firm may "overstore" a geographic area to limit the expansion of rivals. 4. To imprint (something) upon the memory such that it includes additional emotional content and/or influences other thoughts and memories. Example: This inquisition, with its ardent commitment to interpretation and further interpretation, is the complementary process by which presented images overstored with expressive intention can have their meanings developed, brought forth in the full array of their latent possibility. Example: There is experimental evidence showing that cortisol restrains the intensity and duration of the emergency reaction to stress, and catecholamines have been shown to enhance emotional memory in the amygdala (see subsection on "Noradrenaline"). Thus, individuals lacking cortisol would overstore traumatic memories . 5. To overfill or overschool the mind (with certain thoughts). Example: The wag, knowing the natural frailties of the parents, then asked— "Who combed your hair this morning, my pretty little boy?" and the answer was, very much to the astonishment of the parents, no doubt— "The Holy Ghost." While it is quite right to store the infant mind so far, it is just possible — indeed likely to overstore it. Example: Miss Goode became temporarily lost in the mazes of her memory, which was, indeed, somewhat overstored with sayings which had been repeated to her. 6. To overwrite memory or storage. Example: An attempt to overstore this new pitch command resulted in a real-time pitch maneuver being commanded 23 times at 1-minute intervals, due to an undetected bit error in the command message. Example: Other FPL/I debugging features include: 1. each time or each n times that a particular identifier is referenced in any way or is referenced in order to overstore the element value, the execution of the program is temporarily suspended, the value of the identifier is displayed, and the CAPS user given the opportunity to use any of the available debugging features;