- hyperbolic (adj.)
- 1640s (iperbolical is from early 15c.), from Greek hyperbolikos "extravagant," from hyperbole "extravagance," literally "a throwing beyond" (see hyperbole). Geometric sense is from 1670s. Related: Hyperbolically.
- à la mort
- "To (the) death; mortally, fatally. Also hyperbolically . Compare amort. Now somewhat rare", Mid 16th cent.; earliest use found in Robert Copland (fl. 1505–1547), translator and printer. From Middle French, French à la mort desperate, to (the) death (1500 in battre jusqu'à la mort to beat (someone) to death) from à la + mort.