| 释义 |
out-top, outtop, v.|aʊtˈtɒp|
[out- 18 b.]
trans. To rise above, surmount; = overtop.
1674J. Josselyn Voy. New Eng. 161 To the Northwest is a high mountain that out-tops all, with its three rising little hills. 1777G. Forster Voy. round World II. 170 Innumerable coco-palms out-topped the woods. 1877Maclear St. Mark iv. (1879) 55 The thorns gradually out-topped it.
fig.1624Ld.-Keeper Williams Let. 24 May in Cabala (1654) 94 The Treasurers..began then to out-top me, and appeared..likely enough..in time to do as much to your Grace. 1764Mem. G. Psalmanazar 73 He doubted not but to see me outtop all the rest in less than a year or two. 1860Temple in Ess. & Rev. 12 The idea of monotheism out-tops all other ideas in dignity and worth. |