Open and not concealed or secret.
The buſineſs of Overt-Acts is, where the Compaſſing and Imagining the King's Death is the Crime and Queſtion, and this muſt be diſcover'd by Overt-Acts. But if the Treaſon be falſifying of the King's Money, this is Treaſon, but there can be no Overt-Act of that, for that is an Overt-Act in it ſelf; but there muſt be an Overt-Act to prove the Compaſſing and Imagining the Death of the King, and in no other ſort of Treaſon.
Disclosed.
Arg. an eagle rising wings overt inverted sa. armed or. HILTOFTE, V.
An action or condition said to be detrimental to one’s own survival and thus unethical; the consciousness of such behaviour.
Scientologists are sure that the person must have “overts” against Scientology, therefore nothing a former member says can be trusted.
From Middle English overt, uverte (“open, uncovered; unfastened; accessible, unobstructed; clear, manifest”), from Anglo-Norman overt, Middle French ouvert, Old French overt, ouvert, uvert (“opened”) ...
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