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▪ I. † ˈoutray, n. Obs.
Also 5 owtray(e.
[f. next.]
1. = outrage n. in various senses.
14..Ser. J. Mandevelle & Souden 78 in Hazl. E.P.P. (1864) I. 157 In most outraye. Sathanase was lowset, and cawsit this syn. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 156 He start vp stoutly agane..For anger of that outray that he had thair tane. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 134 With..great cruelty they committed outraies along these shores. c1611Chapman Iliad xxiii. 506 You..know well the outrays that engage All young men's actions.
2. ? An outgoing; a going out of bounds.
c1624Chapman Batrachom. 80 The cat and night-hawke, who much skathe confer On all the outraies, where for food I erre.
▪ II. ouˈtray, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.
[a. AngloF. ultreier, outreier (of which Godef. cites ultrea for ultreia from Horn et Rimenhild):—late L. type *ultricāre, f. ultrā beyond; practically identical in sense with OF. oultrer, outrer:—L. *ultrāre; hence cognate with outrage, med.L. ultrāgium, and its derivative outrage vb., of which outray is, in its earlier senses, to a great extent a doublet. But it appears to have been sometimes felt as a compound of out- and ray n. and v., aphetic for array: cf. quots. 1387, c 1611 in sense 1.]
†1. intr. To go beyond or exceed bounds; to stray; to break away from a certain place or order; to be or get out of array. Obs.
13..Coer de L. 2713 Befell that a noble stede Outrayyd fro a paynym. c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. pr. vi. 61 (Camb. MS.) Þat they ne sholden nat owtrayen or forlyuen fro the vertuus of hyr noble kynrede. c1386― Clerk's T. 587 This warne I yow þat ye nat sodeynly Out of youre self for no wo sholde outreye. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 243 Þe Normans arrayed hem eft, and tornede aȝen uppon þe Englische men þat outrayed [v.r. were out of aray], and chased hem in every side. c1611Chapman Iliad v. 793 Your foes, durst not a foote addresse Without their ports..And now they out-ray to your fleete.
2. intr. To go beyond the bounds of moderation or propriety; to be extravagant; to go to excess.
c1440York Myst. xxxiii. 100 Agayne Sir Cesar hym selfe he segges and saies, All þe wightis in this world wirkis in waste, Þat takis hym any tribute; þus his teching outrayes. 1624Jackson Christ's Answ. §14 Reason itself must be regulated..otherwise it will outray farther in its desires than sense. 1625― Creed v. v. §8 Without whose lists should he tempt them to outray much in notorious dissoluteness. 1878Cumberld. Gloss., Oot ray, to exceed propriety.
3. trans. To go beyond, overcome; to vanquish, crush; to surpass, excel. Now dial.
c1420Anturs of Arth. xxiv, The child playes atte the balle, That outray schalle ȝo alle Derfly that daye! c1430Lydg. Chichev. & Byc. in Dodsley O.P. XII. 336 Wymmen han made hemself so stronge, For to outraye humylite. 1430― St. Margaret 343 Thi chast lyf, thy parfyt holynesse Han me venquysshed and outrayed in distresse. c1440Generydes 2426 What knyghte is yender..That in the feld outrayth euerychone? 1523Skelton Crown Laurel xxiii, The cause why Demosthenes so famously is bruted Onely proceeded, for that he did outray Eschines. a1529― P. Sparowe 84 Where Cerberus doth barke,..Whom Hercules dyd outraye. 1876F. K. Robinson Whitby Gloss., Outray, to outshine; to excel.
†4. intr. To be outrageous, commit outrages.
1377Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 217 Ȝif that his enemys ouȝt outrayed, To chasteis hem wolde he not lete. c1450Lonelich Grail xlvi. 41 Anon kyng Mordrayns gan to Owtraye, And Al the Contre gan for to Afraye And brend bothe Castel and town.
†5. trans. To outrage, to treat outrageously; to injure, insult, abuse. Obs.
c1400Melayne 12 And saide þaire gaumes weren alle gone Owttrayede with hethen thede. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 374 Ȝone man that thow outrayd Is not sa simpill as he said. 1530Palsgr. 651/1, I outray a persone (Lydgate), I do some outrage or extreme hurt to hym. Je oultrage.
†6. To put out (of bounds), turn out, expel. Obs.
1415Hoccleve To Sir J. Oldcastle 279 In your fals errour shul yee been outrayed And been enhabited with Sathanas. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas iii. xxii. heading, Evagoras King of Cipre was by Artaxerxes outrayed and putte from his kingdom. c1470Harding Chron. ccix. xi, They two warryed..Vpon the duke of Burgoyne, and hym outrayed, That he went into Burgoyne all formayed.
Hence † ouˈtrayer, one who abuses or insults; † ouˈtraying vbl. n. Obs.
1375Barbour Bruce xviii. 182 Bot gif the mair misaduenture Befell thame, it suld richt hard thing Be till leid thame till outraying. 1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 215 Howsoeuer some surly syres, or mincing outraiers doe scorne and scoffe at them behinde their backes.
▪ III. outˈray, v.2 rare.
[f. out- 14, 21 + ray v., n.]
a. intr. To flash out as a ray; to radiate, emanate.
b. trans. To surpass in radiance.
1647H. More Poems 144 Mans soul from Gods own life outray'd. 1652Benlowes Theoph. i. viii, Thou outray'st all diamonds of the skies. 1895Ld. De Tabley Poems Ser. ii. 1 An aureole outrayed upon her brow. |