Definitions
be or do something to a greater degree
Word origin
The verb is derived from Middle English outgon (“to go out, depart, leave; to come out, emerge; to escape; to protrude; of a sword: to be drawn; to emanate from (a place); to accompany”), from Old English ūtgān (“to go out”), Proto-West Germanic *ūtgān (“to go out”), equivalent to out- + go. See also go out.
Used in a sentence
“So then it will alwayes bee found trew, that God outgoeth all our prayers, and all our wiſhes.”
“Shepheards delights he dooth them all forſweare, / Hys pleaſaunt Pipe, whych made vs meriment, / He wylfully hath broke, and doth forbeare / His wonted ſongs, wherein he all outwent.”
“But when they came, where thou thy ſkill didſt ſhowe, / They drewe abacke, as halfe with ſhame confound, / Shepheard to ſee, them in theyr art outgoe.”
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