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▪ I. ˈoutspring, n.
[out- 7.]
The act of springing out or forth; the issuing out.
1557Primer Sarum Ps. lxiv, Thou..multipliest the springes of it with soft showers, it shall englad the out⁓springes. 1891Froude Cath. Aragon Introd. 12 The era of Elizabeth was the outspring of the movement which Henry VIII commenced.
▪ II. outˈspring, v.
[out- 14, 18.]
1. intr. To spring out, issue forth. (In ME. two words; now only poetic.)
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 9442 Duntes þer were strong inou, þat þet fur out sprong Of þe helmes al aboute. c1386Chaucer Doctor's T. 111 The fame out sprong on euery syde Bothe of hir beautee and hir bountee wyde. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxiii. 111 The fowlis all at the fedrem dang..Quhill all the pennis of it ow[t]sprang. 1818Shelley Rev. Islam v. vi. 5 From every tent..Our bands outsprung and seized their arms.
†b. To spring by birth. Obs.
a1547Surrey æneid iv. (1557) E ij, There comen is to Tyrians court Aeneas one outsprong of Troyan blood. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. i. 110 Flurished, and sum⁓tyme outsprang frome thir generatiouns..mony men excellent in the commendatione and gude reporte of leirning & virtue.
2. trans. To spring beyond or farther than.
1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 402 A..second Brother liued, whose ill out-sprung..the elder.
So ˈoutˌspringing vbl. n.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xxviii. (1495) 341 Shinynge is outspryngynge and streming out of the substaunce of lyghte. |