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outrageous, a. (adv.)|aʊtˈreɪdʒəs|
Forms: 4– outrageous; also 4 ut-, 4–5 oute-, 4–6 owt-, 5–6 oult-; 4 Sc. -eouss, 5 -uous, 5–6 -yous, -ios, 5–8 -ious, 6 -eus, -iowse, etc.
[a. OF. outrageus, AF. oult-, F. -eux, f. outrage outrage n.1: see -ous.]
1. Exceeding proper limits; excessive, immoderate, extravagant, superfluous; enormous, extraordinary, unusual. In later use coloured by sense 2.
c1325Metr. Hom. 89 His frendes..gert him wel eet and drinc, And lef his utrageous swinc. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 9440 Outrageus hete and outrageouse calde. c1386Chaucer Pard. T. 322 Vengeance shal nat parten from his hous That of his othes is to outrageous. 14..in Alexander, etc. (E.E.T.S.) 283 For þe outragez hight of housez. c1416Hoccleve Bal. Hen. V 14 The somme..Is nat excessif ne outrageous. 1447Rolls of Parlt. V. 137/2 Outeragious assemble of pepill. 1484Caxton Chivalry 77 By ouer oultragyous drynkynge and etynge. 1502Atkinson tr. De Imitatione i. xxi. 170 Remembre the outragious peynes of hell & pourgatory. c1550R. Bieston Bayte Fortune B ij b, By arrogance oultrageous thy tounge on vanting swerueth. 1555Eden Decades 67 Beinge pricked forwarde with owtragious hunger. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xi. 46 b, We found the streame..so violent and outragious. 1696Whiston Th. Earth iv. (1722) 378 [It] would..afterward descend in violent and outragious Rains. 1818Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. ii. 46 The Romans [always seemed to me] the most outrageous, strutting, boasting barbarians on the face of the earth. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. xii. 55 Yesterday he had to keep indoors Because of the outrageous rain that fell.
2. Excessive or unrestrained in action; violent, furious; † excessively bold or fierce (obs.).
1375Barbour Bruce ix. 102 For hys outrageouss manheid, Confortit his men on sic maneir. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋485 In his outrageous anger and Ire. c1420Anturs of Arth. 421 Thou hase wonnen thaym one werre, with owttrageouse wille. 1484Caxton Fables of æsop i. xvi, There was a lyon whiche in his yougthe was fyers and moche outragyous. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cxxxvii. 165 He came with a thre thousande of the moost outragyoust people in all that countrey. 1609Rowlands Whole Crew of Kind Gossips 30 Sometimes her out-ragious madding fits, Makes me as mad as she, beside my wits. 1658J. Jones tr. Ovid's Ibis 117 So is revenge furiously out-ragious and outragiously furious. 1751Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 169 From an outrageous lunatic, he sunk afterwards into a quiet, speechless idiot. 1806H. Siddons Maid, Wife, & Widow I. 198 The old man was outrageous: Frederick acted with more policy.
3. Excessive in injuriousness, cruelty, or offensiveness; of the nature of violent or gross injury, wrong, or offence, or of a gross violation of law, humanity, or morality; grossly offensive or abusive.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 174 [If he] do him sum outrageus injure. Ibid. 287 And he persevere in his outrageous langage. 1502Ord. Crysten Men ii. v. (1506) 95 Whyche thynge is outragyous & presumpcyon detestable ayenst god. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 274 b, Which outragious crueltie, I doubt not but God wyll ones avenge. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. ii. 65 If a man that hath no need doe rob or fleece his Neighbour of his goodes: therein appeareth so much the lewder and outragiouser naughtinesse. 1642in Clarendon Hist. Reb. v. §66 To punish those horrible, outragious cruelties, which had been committed in the murthering, and spoiling so many of his Subjects. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxxv. 313 The outrageous treatment of poor Tom had roused her still more. 1864Tennyson Aylmer's F. 286 Pelted with outrageous epithets. 1888A. K. Green Behind Closed Doors ii, Whether I am to be made the victim of an outrageous scandal that will affect my whole future career.
†B. as adv. = next. Obs.
1375Barbour Bruce ix. 483 He wes outrageouss hardy. 1526Skelton Magnyf. 2570 To day hote, to morowe outragyous colde. |