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▪ I. ˈoutleap, n.
[out- 7.]
An act of leaping or springing out; an escape, sally, or excursion; an outburst. lit. and fig.
c1250Gloss. Law Terms in Rel. Ant. I. 33 Utleph, Eschapement de prisum. 1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions i. iv. 48 The people..are called Maures, or Moores, as I thincke of their outleapes and wide rowming. 1631J. Burges Answ. Rejoined Pref. 28 [His] words are set downe punctually, yea euen his out-leapes and digressions. 1692Locke Educ. §97 Youth must have some Liberty, some Outleaps. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xxxiv, The outleap of fury in the dagger-thrust. a1878Lewes Stud. Psychol. (1879) 147 An immediate outleap of heroic generosity.
†b. A place to which excursions are made. Obs.
a1652Brome New Acad. ii. i, When shall we walk to Totnam?..or take Coach to Kensington Or Padington? or to some one or other O' th' City out-leaps for an afternoon?
▪ II. outˈleap, v.
[out- 17, 18, 14.]
1. trans. To leap over or beyond. Also fig.
1600Rowlands Lett. Humours Blood vi. 78 T'out leape mens heades, and caper ore the table. 1897Home Messenger Nov. 173 A world that outleaps all measurement and outruns all duration.
2. To surpass or excel in leaping.
1629Gaule Holy Madn. 166 A lion will outstand a man..a stagge out-leap him. 1700Wallis in Collect. (O.H.S.) I. 318 Who did..out-leap..the next-best leaper..by seven inches. 1854Owen Skel. & Teeth in Circ. Sc., Organ. Nat. I. 198 The serpent has no limbs, yet it can..outleap the jerboa.
3. intr. To leap out or forth. (poet.)
1850Blackie æschylus I. 49 Outleapt a birth Of strong shield-bearers from the fateful horse. 1874Holland Mistr. Manse xvi. 65 Outleaping from the mesh Of memory's net, like bird or bee.
Hence outˈleaping, vbl. n. and ppl. a., leaping out.
1878J. Todhunter Alcestis (1879) 56 Done so simply, In such a frank outleaping of the soul. 1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy v. 359 Escaping subtly in outleaping thought. |