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单词 out of
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out ofprep.

Brit. /ˈaʊt əv/, U.S. /ˈaʊd ə(v)/
Forms: see out adv., int., and prep. and of prep. also Middle English–1600s out a, 1800s– urrov (Manx English). See also outta prep.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: out adv., of prep.
Etymology: < out adv. + of prep. Originally, and still in writing, two words, viz. the adverb out followed by the preposition of (in its primary sense ‘from’). In analysis out of is precisely on the same level with the obsolete down of , up of , and the current out from , out to , down from , and other instances of an adverb followed by a preposition which defines its relation to an object. But in Old English as in the Scandinavian languages ūt of (Old Swedish ut af (Swedish utav ), Danish ud af ) became the regular equivalent of classical Latin ex ex prep., ancient Greek ἐξ, ἐκ (while German and Dutch used the adverb itself as a preposition); out of has thus acquired a unity of sense and also of pronunciation, which entitle it to separate treatment, whereby also its own sense-development can be more distinctly exhibited.The history of out of is partly parallel to that of in to, with the differences that the latter is now written into as one word, and that out of is the opposite, not only of into, but also of the static in. One reason why out of has not needed to be written as one word may be that the distinction now made between into and in to is in the case of out expressed by out of and out from: thus ‘they came in to me, into my house’, ‘he went out from me, out of my house’.
I. Of motion or direction. Opposed to into.
1.
a. From inside (a containing space or thing).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > out of [preposition]
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the world > space > direction > specific directions > [preposition] > in outward direction from
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eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) vi. xxxviii. 156 Hie aforan ut of þære byrig.
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xviii. 308 Þa flugon þa cneohtas ut of þæm ealonde.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 1070 Þa ferdon þa Dænesca menn ut of Elig.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 4162 Mid fehte heo wulleð me sende ut of [c1300 Otho of] Brut-londe.
c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) 116 Þe king ovt of Noremandie cam In-to Enguelonde.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 79 (MED) Clawdius Cesar sente legiouns out of þat citee.
1450 W. Lomner Let. 5 May in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. (1880) 4 Yn the syght of all his men he was drawyn ought of the grete shippe.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clxiiiv [He] plucketh out of his bosome a lether bagge, and takynge out of it certen letters, hasteth out of the doers.
1618 S. Ward Iethro's Iustice of Peace 11 I wonder not that Christ..whipt out the chapmen out of the Temple.
1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. i. sig. C3 So I will, said he, furiously; going away out of the Room.
1742 H. Walpole Lett. I. 156 Every body is going out of town.
1790 A. W. Radcliffe Sicilian Romance I. vi. 229 Peter starting from his seat, and snatching up the lamp, rushed out of the dungeon.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. xiii. 341 To scourge out of thee this boyish spirit of bravado.
1872 Punch 2 Mar. 88/1 He fairly laughed the Bill out of the House.
1884 W. Besant Dorothy Forster I. i. 20 His rosy face looked as if he had already taken as much drink out of the can as he could well hold.
1927 ‘Float & Fly’ Fishing Matches iii. 11 On the day of the match the competitors each draw a number out of a hat.
1985 F. Tuohy Coll. Stories 4 We stepped out of the car into a fierce pungent stink of mules.
1994 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 24 Jan. a18/5 The bag is then pulled out of the abdomen.
b. Indicating direction: from within, so as to point, project, or lead away from.Without the notion of separation.
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the world > space > direction > specific directions > [preposition] > in outward direction from > so as to point or extend from
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c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 163 (MED) Out of his mouþe com a swerd keruande forto destroye þe mysbileuande.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 26 (MED) Þe toþer arterie þat comeþ out of þe lift-side of þe herte.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 6477 Þere hij founde Wymmen growen out of þe grounde.
?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 125 (MED) Many braunchys como [come] out of on rote.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clxiiiv Lookynge downe out of the stowffe wyndowe [L. ex hypocausti fenestra] into the courte.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 278 It groweth ordinarily vpon rockes bearing out of the sea.
1726 Flower Gard. Displ. (ed. 2) Introd. Pistillum, a small Thread or Stamen, with an Apex on the Top of it, growing out of the Seminary Vessels, exactly in the Center of some Flowers.
1771 H. Mackenzie Man of Feeling xix. 44 They observed a board hung out of a window.
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 201 A carrier is then secured on a part of the plug that projects out of the breech-end of the barrel.
1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ I. 476 Minarets rising out of their groves of palm and citron.
1918 W. Cather My Ántonia ii. vi. 202 It was a tramp. His toes stuck out of his shoes.
1981 G. Household Summon Bright Water i. 11 There were four or five other cells opening out of the passage.
c. Originally Mathematics: †away from (in subtraction) (obsolete). Now: from among a number or group of.
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c1392 Equatorie of Planetis 44 (MED) I say wel þt I myht nat drawe 20 degres owt of 8 degres ne 42 minutis owt of 13 mia.
?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 17 (MED) Mediacion is a takyngout of halfe a nomber out of a holle nomber, as yf þou wolde take 3 out of 6.
1448 in B. Sundby Stud. Middle Eng. Dial. Material Worcs. Rec. (1963) 254 (MED) The wyche maner, londes and tenementes Shull yerly be of the valuwe of x li. ouer almaner charges goyng out of theym.
a1450 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe ii. § 25 25 Abate than 38 oute of 90; so leveth there 52.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum at Coil Coyle or chose out of many, seligo.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. f. 114 v The Maiestrates were chosen and elected out of this degree.
a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) 115/2 Am I one Selected out of all the husbands living, To be so ridden by a Tit of ten pence.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 223 They are pickt and choise men, men chosen out of many for the good of the Town of Mansoul. View more context for this quotation
1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. ii. iii. 190 Have you, then, any right to be offended at the spirit of retaliation which one, out of such numbers, has courage to exert in return?
1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse Shoe Robinson (1852) ii. 28 I could not have picked out of the army a better man than Sergeant Galbraith Robinson.
1883 Manch. Examiner 29 Nov. 5/1 There are three..courses open to us, and out of these we have to make our choice.
1937 J. F. Dobie in J. F. Dobie & M. C. Boatright Straight Texas 7 The rancher told me to pick any horse I chose out of his remuda.
2001 M. Steel Reasons to be Cheerful xi. 124 The woman would respond with a nervous smile..looking as if she'd been picked out of the audience by a unicyclist in Covent Garden.
2.
a. From, so as no longer to be in, affected by, or subject to (a condition or state). Also: translated from one language or literary form (into another).
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OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) 59 Se þe þa ærran wicþenunga geendod hæbbe, þonne he ut of þære wicþenunge fære, cweþe þis fers.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4109 Itt shollde lesenn hemm Vt off adamess sinne.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 183 He heom wolde leaden..out of þeowedome.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 13 Ut of latin ðis song is dragen On engleis speche.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 155 (MED) I abreide Riht as a man doth out of slep.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos (Colophon) The boke of Eneydos..whiche hathe be translated oute of latyne in to frenshe, And oute of frenshe reduced in to Englysshe by me wylliam Caxton.
?c1500 Killing of Children (Digby) 197 I put the owt of dought.
a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander f. 281v This great storie..Was neuir befoir translaittit..out of the Frensche leid.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. v Nor exclude out of his fauoure one that were willyng to amende.
1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue ii. 67 To bring him out of conceite with the goodness and validitie thereof.
a1635 R. Corbet Certain Elegant Poems (1647) 43 First written, then translated out of Dutch, Currants, diaries, packets, newes, more newes.
1686 Bp. G. Burnet Reflect. Mr. Varillas's Hist. Revolutions 64 He was recovering out of a great Disease.
1766 G. Cockings Conquest Canada iv. vi. 52 Wake each Frenchman out of his legarthic [sic] Dream of vain Security!
1821 E. H. Thurlow To Virgil in Select Poems 88 (note) Translated out of Horace.
1887 H. Caine Life Coleridge i. 22 The severe teacher who flogged him out of his infidelity ridiculed him out of false taste in poetry.
1923 B. Carmen Ballads & Lyrics 66 Long since did I..In some mysterious doleful way Fall out of love with thee.
1996 J. Doran Red Doran 41 Derry was shook out of its tranquillity and all of a sudden forces in uniform were all over the place.
b. From (a position or office).
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1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 4th Serm. sig. Kvi Make them quondams, out wt them, cast them out of ther office.
a1579 N. Bacon Recreations Age (1903) 29 All that you can, and besides this To vse suche meanes as I maye fynde..And when bothe theis you cease to doe, Oute of service I chardge you goe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. ii. 201 Well, would I were Gently put out of Office, before I were forc'd out. View more context for this quotation
1776 T. Jefferson Public Papers 1775–1825 II. 339 The Senate shall consist of not less than [15] nor more than [50] members... One third of them shall be removed out of office by lot at the end of the first [three] years.
1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames xiii. 366 Five of the twenty-one Directors shall go out of office by rotation every year.
1860 A. C. Swinburne Queen-mother iv. ii. 106 Yea, contempt of men Shall put them out of office.
1985 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 16 Apr. c1 There is no job in Illinois where if your boss doesn't think that you are doing a sufficent job that he or she can't move you out of that job.
2002 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 6 Oct. 15 Rod Liddle has been pushed out of his post as editor of the Today programme.
3.
a. From a place or thing as a source, origin, or provenance; deriving from.
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c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4936 Alle mahhtess springenn ut Off soþ mecnessess rote.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 11 (MED) Hwa is ðat nis ofdradd of ðese muchele ðþunresleiȝ ðe cumþ ut of godes auȝene muðe?
c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 1110 Ye speken of swich gentilesse As is descended out of old richesse.
a1450 Forest Laws in W. A. Baillie-Grohman & F. Baillie-Grohman Master of Game (1904) 242 (MED) If ther be ony man that hath oute of ony holow tree wex, hony, or swarm of been, [etc.].
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. xii. 37 Out of thy wordes thou shalt be iustified.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. vii. 119 Mahomet..came out of a base stock.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 16 The wind blew out of the Eist.
1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) iv. sig. I1v If you argue meerely out of Nature; doe you not degenerate from that.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. iii. §10 He quotes it out of Pliny.
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 213 This was the Account we got out of them.
1758 G. G. Beekman Let. 13 Mar. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 327 If One hundred pound Sterling would have discharged all his debts I would have paid it out of my Own pockit.
1870 J. H. Newman Ess. Gram. Assent ii. x. 451 That availableness arises out of their coincidence, and out of what does that coincidence arise?
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 29 He should get money out of the Greeks before he assisted them.
1886 Cyclists' Touring Club Gaz. 4 122 To tempt..many a ‘pot~hunter’ who follows racing for what he can get out of it.
1938 Amer. Home Oct. 66/2 Why spend a week's rent on cocktails, when all one can possibly get out of it is a ‘hangover’?
1989 B. Spock & M. Morgan Spock on Spock xxiii. 262 I understand now that my mother's strictness came out of her unusually difficult childhood.
b. Of an animal, esp. a horse: so as to be born from a particular mother. Also in extended use.
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1805 G. Huddesford Champignons du Diable v. 185 We know who lent that Pope the coal-Black colt, out of the Night-mare got.
1816 Sporting Mag. 48 185 She..was got by Midnight, out of a small well-bred mare.
1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey iii. xii. 295 The room seemed to him to have been got by a concert-hall out of a station waiting-room.
1991 Working Terrier Feb. 21/2 An excellent hare hunting dog bred..out of a greyhound bitch and a greyhound cross beardie dog.
c. From (a base or headquarters); using (a place) as a centre of operations.
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1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? xii. 300 She's turned pro... She's working out of Gladys'.
1960 ‘E. McBain’ Give Boys Great Big Hand xii. 146 We were going to run away together... I could always get work out of Miami.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 June 784/4 The miscellaneous radio amateurs and visionaries who worked out of shacks and garages.
1993 Vintage Roadscene Sept.–Nov. 149/3 Goodall had now started to work out of Devon Concrete to all parts of the South West.
4.
a. From (something) as a cause or motive; as the result or effect of; because or by reason of.
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c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 236 (MED) Feng his neb to rudnin ant tendrin ut of teone.
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 338 (MED) Ouȝt of þis trist in hymsilf and mystrist in me, comeþ al maner yuel.
c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 175 (MED) Into þis þat my deedly synnys be forȝoue to me..is out of my freendis preiers.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. G.i But we..do binde our selues with certaine new lawes out of pourpose.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. iv. 87 My master charg'd me to deliuer a ring to Madam Siluia: wc (out of my neglect) was neuer done. View more context for this quotation
c1625 J. Smith Hist. Bermudaes (1882) iii. 47 The frigate, out of hope of the recouerye of her prize, makes a second time for the Indies.
1690 Def. Rights & Priviledges Univ. Oxf. Pref. Not only out of respect to ourselves but out of kindness to the City.
1731 B. Franklin Apol. for Printers 10 June in Papers (1959) I. 198 I am oblig'd to all who take my Paper, and am willing to think they do it out of meer Friendship.
1800 Duke of Wellington Let. to Lieut. Col. Close in Dispatches (1837) I. 80 As you come only out of compliment to me.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xxxvii. 138 The crowds go for the most part out of curiosity.
1954 D. Abse Ash on Young Man's Sleeve 181 I just laughed out of sheer embarrassment.
1992 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 15 Jan. 3/2 Numerous and lengthy legal appeals..must be granted..before anyone can be offed out of spite.
b. From (something) as a material of construction; by use of. Cf. of prep. VII.
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c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 1342 (MED) Honored he..fals fantummes of fendes, formed with handes, Wyth tool out of harde tre.
?c1400 Erthe upon Erthe (St. John's Cambr.) st. 1 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1919) 138 50 (MED) Erþe owt of erþe ys wondirli wrowȝt.
1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 2302 in Wks. (1931) I Imageis maid with mennis hand..Sanct Duthow, boird out of ane bloke.
1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. E2(2) F[i]rst they say were made waters, out of which by the gods was made all diuersitie of creatures that are visible or inuisible.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 128 Nothing can be made out of nothing. View more context for this quotation
1735 R. Dodsley Toy-shop 19 I have a Snuff-Box made out of the Tub in which Diogenes liv'd.
1771 G. Lyttelton Hist. Henry II III. 94 A fort..erected out of the ruins of that most ancient city.
1842 T. B. Macaulay Machiavelli in Ess. (1887) 31 Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil.
1866 G. A. Sala Trip to Barbary 112 The feasibility of twisting a rope out of the sands of the Sahara.
1901 G. W. James Indian Basketry xiii. 219 Uuyot brought the big ceremonial pipe which he had made out of rock.
1992 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 37 45 Sentences are built out of words.
†c. Arising from; after (in time or succession). Obsolete.
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c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) iv (MED) Discryving first of his prosperitee And out of that his infelicitee.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 58 He became a very great philosopher out of a shamefully deboist ruffian.
5. From within the range, limit, or scope of (an action, influence, power, etc.).
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c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 267 Eleusis..hehte swiðe don hire ut of his eh sihðe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) 2073 (MED) Do þe suith vte of mi sith.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 328 Sir Beawmaynes..sawe where the blak knyght rode his way wyth the dwarff, and so he rode oute of his syght.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 96 (MED) Let hym nat escape out of your daungere.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. vii. 20 This house..wil I cast awaye out of my presence.
a1625 J. Fletcher Chances iii. iv. 13/2 in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbb3 Walke aside, And out of hearing I command ye.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. v. 171 They flattered themselves they were got out of his reach.
1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph II. 149 She would have marched off with him, and even married him, to get out of my clutches.
1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) XI. 62 Filing out of sight of the trenches.
1894 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson x. 124 He took himself out of view as quickly as he could.
a1935 E. A. Robinson Coll. Poems (1937) vi. 828 When you go..you may require Assistance on your way out of my sight.
1991 Westcoast Logger July 13/2 Work must cease and the crew be moved out of reach of the tower.
6. From, so as to be deprived of, (a possession, property, right, etc.).
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c1390 Castle of Love (Vernon) (1967) 207 (MED) Out of his heritage he is pult For synne and for his owne gult.
a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 2898 Go brewe Mankynd a byttyr bende And putte hym oute of hys halle.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 40 Sum putt out of his possessioun.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxx They were taken all and striped out of their armure.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. ii. 191 I haue wasted my selfe out of meanes. View more context for this quotation
1708 F. Atterbury 14 Serm. 168 To be talk'd out of their Pleasures and their Privileges.
1782 T. Newton Wks. II. xxii. 462 Cajoled and flattered out of their estate, out of their reputation, out of their understanding.
1819 J. Poole Short Reign & Merry One ii. iii. 49 That may be all very fine; but don't think I'm to be done out of my estate.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 328 You are lazy and mean to cheat us out of a whole chapter.
1954 W. S. Burroughs Let. Oct. (1993) 234 So I was cheated out of the fix of a lifetime.
1994 J. Galloway Foreign Parts xi. 171 I know they're the products of their conditioning and they've been done out of their emotional birthrights and all that stuff.
7. With verb of motion understood. Now only in imperative uses. Cf. out adv. 4.Sometimes with with (cf. with prep. 9b).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > out of [preposition] > from a source
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel
afferreOE
warpc1000
outdriveOE
wreakc1100
to cast out1297
to cast fortha1382
out-chasec1395
flecchea1400
to shoot forth, out, awaya1400
propel?1440
expulse?a1475
scour1488
out-thrust1532
to catch forthc1540
propulse1548
pulsec1550
unplant1552
to turn out of ——1562
extrude1566
detrude?1567
eliminate1568
deturbate1570
detruse1571
unroost1598
to put by1600
deturb1609
bolt1615
run1631
disembogue1632
out of1656
expel1669
rout1812
to manage (a person) out of1907
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 195 Þat þere mowe noon eir out [L. exalare] þerof.]
c1475 Mankind (1969) 696 (MED) Out of my wey! sers, for drede of fyghtynge!
1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) vii. xx. sig. o.iv He wille neuer oute of this countrey vntyl that he haue me ageyne.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. ii. 171 Out of my doore, you Witch, you Ragge..out, out. View more context for this quotation
1656 J. Trapp Comm. 2 Cor. x. 5 Out of doors with this Hagar.
1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. iv. viii, in Wks. 93 It will never out of their Memories.
1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera iii. i. 41 Out of my Sight, wanton Strumpet!
1795 J. Hall-Stevenson Moral Tales 226 The husband cried, ‘'tis a clear case..Out of my bed, out of this place.’
1845 T. H. Chivers Lost Pleiad 7 Out of my heart forever more!
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 71 Out of my carriage, at once, you dog!
a1890 G. H. Boker Glaucus iv, in Glaucus & Other Plays (1940) 201 What, will you cower, because you have been cuffed? Out of my way!
1990 N. Hill Death grows on You (1992) ii. 18 Come on with you! Out of bed!
II. Of position. Opposed to in.
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a. Not within (a space or containing thing); beyond the confines of; outside.In this sense out of may express position resulting from the outward motion of sense 1, or as opposed to inward motion, or simply with respect to a given point or boundary.
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OE Guild Regulations, Ely in B. Thorpe Diplomatarium Anglicum Ævi Saxonici (1865) 612 Gif hwilc gegilda ut of lande forðfere, oððe beo gesycled, gefeccan hine his gegildan.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1123 Ða hwile þæt se ærcebiscop wæs ut of lande, geaf se kyng ðone biscoprice of Baðe þes cwenes canceler.
1348 in C. Welch Hist. Pewterers of London (1902) I. 3 (MED) And that non of the saide craft wirk preueli in hid placis vessells of lede nor of fals alay for to selle oute of the cite atte faires or markettes for esclaunder to the cite.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 1691 (MED) Hold ȝou ouȝt of heie gates.
a1450 Late Middle Eng. Treat. on Horses (1978) 99 (MED) Mangew..wil come of sodayne fast ridynge, when an hors aftur gret traueyle or aftur gret swetynge, stonduþ vnheled or out of house.
c1522 E. Betts Let. in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 228 And I said he cowde not ye were so ffere owte of this cuntre [i.e. in Devon, not London].
1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 73 My mother is out of the house.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. i. 17 So I were out of prison, and kept Sheepe I should be as merry as the day is long. View more context for this quotation
1644 Deposition (Virginia) in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 142 This depont: espyed a fellow out of the path standing wth: a Calfe.
1777 W. Hamilton Acct. Discov. Pompeii 14 The present excavations are carrying on at a sort of Villa Rustica out of the city.
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. IV. ix. ii. vii. 604 Out of British ground, it would be difficult to form an idea of the pitch to which the grievance..has been raised in England.
1853 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 222 Too weak and frail to be out of bed.
1953 H. Mellanby Animal Life in Fresh Water (ed. 5) viii. 145 The breathing tube is periodically placed so that its tip is out of the water.
1996 F. McCourt Angela's Ashes (1997) x. 277 Ye are coming to my house till yeer mother is out of the hospital.
b. At a specified distance away from.
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1420 Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 65 (MED) The Abbey of Saveneye..ys but a lege ouȝt of Mayn.
1459 Rolls of Parl. V. 369/2 Lord Stanley..restyd hym..at Newcastell, but vi myle oute of Eggleshall.
?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. A.vii I haue ben in gene and in cowe Also in the londe of rumbelowe Thre myle out of hell.
c1566 R. Stephen Brief Rehearsall in C. Plummer Elizabethan Oxf. (1887) 205 Even unto Shotover, a mile and more out of Oxford.
1625 A. Wheelocke Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. lxxxv. 329 He is but Four Miles dwelling out of Cambridg.
1685 A. Behn Love Lett. between Noble-man & Sister: 2nd Pt. 403 They appointed that Silvia and Antonett shou'd go three Miles out of Town to a little Village.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 318 The Place was about two Miles out of the Village, where, it seems, they kept the Camels and Horses.
1863 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 154 Ealing, some seven miles out of London.
1992 D. Morgan Rising in West ii. vi. 102 A little way out of Las Cruces..a passenger car coming the other way drove them off the road.
c. Taken from among; occurring among or in (a number or group); as a fraction of (a larger number). Also followed by every in statements of proportion (cf. every adj. 1a(c)).Expressing the result of the motion in 1c.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > a member or part of [preposition] > one of an aggregate
out of1492
outta1906
1492 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 252/1 To deliuer to þaim four sekkis of woll & xiiij stane out of a last.
1562 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 291 Three persons owte of the xiij for the tyme beinge.
1647 R. Baron Εροτοπαιγνιον i. 11 A valiant and heroicall Knight, one out of the number of those, whom renowned Fame will ever celebrate.
1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. vii. 20 Of all Dowries exceeding 100 l. ther should be two out of every cent deducted..for putting off hard-favor'd and poor Maids.
1709 Tatler No. 71. ⁋5 These out of many such irregular Practices, I write for his Reclaimation.
1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1826) II. xi. App. ii. 116 The Jew engaged to pay one mark out of every seven that he should recover.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. iii. 18 Out of fourteen thousand pounds we had now but four hundred remaining.
1797 Monthly Mag. 3 501 Out of every thousand men, 28 die off annually.
1866 G. A. Sala Trip to Barbary 89 To shut up the shops one day out of the seven.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. p. xx When one epistle out of a number is spurious.
1902 W. S. Maugham Mrs. Craddock v. 47 Nine marriages out of ten are more or less unsatisfactory.
1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 27 We started givin' the blokes marks out of ten.
2003 Nat. New Eng. Summer 50/1 Two-headed snakes. These aberrations..occur with an estimated frequency of one out of every 50,000 to 100,000 births.
d. Not (or no longer) wearing (a garment).
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1782 Ann. Reg. 1780 ii. Characters 64/1 Their situations were often so alert that no persons slept out of their clothes.
1860 C. M. Yonge Stokesley Secret (1880) ix. 260 It was the first time that Christabel had seen her out of her beplumed hat.
1929 H. A. Vachell Virgin iii. 58 What a honeypot she was, whether in or out of breeches and boots.
1993 House Beautiful Feb. 10/2 Only in her bedroom had I ever seen her out of stockings and high heels.
†e. On the outer side of, outside. Obsolete. rare.
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a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) iii. iii, in Wks. (1821) II. 83 The bough-pots out of the window.
9.
a. Outside (a delimited period, position, situation, etc.); as out of bounds, hours, wedlock, etc. †out of life: dead (obsolete).
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OE Writ of Edward the Confessor, Westminster (Sawyer 1126) in F. E. Harmer Anglo-Saxon Writs (1952) 349 Ic kyðe eow þæt ic hæbbe gegyfen hym on eallum hys lande, saca, & socna, toll, & team,..& ealle oðre gerihtu, inne tid & ut of tid, binna burh & butan burh, [etc.].
c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 667 Wherfore I seye that folk that maken hir seruantz to trauaillen..out of tyme, as on haly dayes, soothly they do greet synne.
a1400 in K. W. Engeroff Untersuchung ‘Usages of Winchester’ (1914) 60 (MED) Euerich cart out of þe fraunchyse shal to þe kynge by custome ij pans and an halpeny.
a1425 Dialogue Reason & Adversity (Cambr.) (1968) 17 (MED) I was juel born for ouȝte of matrimonye.
c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 74 (MED) Bettyr they were to be oute off lyve Than soche payne for to dryve.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 97 Thame yat ar out of the faith of Ihesu Crist.
1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 2 §5 Noon apprentice..[shall] pley..at the Tenys..in no wise out of Cristmas.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iii. sig. Gg.iv This communication nowe is out of the pourpose that I went about.
1565–72 T. Cooper Thesaurus Furto conceptus,..begotten out of maryage.
1640 Whole Bk. Psalmes: ‘Bay Psalm Bk.’ sig. ** The objections made against this doe most of them plead against joyning to sing in heart as well as in voyce, as that by this meanes others out of the Church will sing.
1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife iv. 58 My Mother charg'd me never to be married out of the Canonical hours.
1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 3. 19 The Church of England is intirely out of the Dispute.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. vi. 27 I remember what my Uncle once averr'd; That a woman out of wedlock is half useless to the end of her being.
a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) iii. 57 There is a little fat fellow..as pert as a prentice just out of his time.
1849 J. Lingard Hist. Eng. (1855) VII. App. 277/1 Greenway..declares..that Bates never spoke one word to him on the subject, either in or out of confession.
a1902 S. Butler Way of All Flesh (1903) xliii. 192 Dr Skinner called the boys together, and with much pomp excommunicated Mrs Cross and Mrs Jones, by declaring their shops to be out of bounds.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 379/2 The question remains, how far, if at all, English law recognizes the legitimacy of a person born out of wedlock.
2000 T. Hadley in J. Thomas Catwomen from Hell 5 The sixth-form college he taught at was sometimes hired out for functions out of school hours.
b. Outside or beyond the usual limits of (a process, condition, etc.), as out of comparison, out of doubt, out of measure, out of the ordinary, out of (the) question, etc.out of this world: see world n. Phrases 36.
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a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 2234 (MED) Deliuerli þei hieȝed hem þider for drede, out of doute.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 679 (MED) Min herte..Som time of hire is sore adrad, And som time it is overglad, Al out of reule and out of space.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 13166 (MED) I aske þe nouþer hous ny londe Ny noon oþere þing out of resoun [a1400 Vesp. wit vnresun].
a1450 (?1409) St. Patrick's Purgatory (Royal) 65 (MED) Þese folk..dispendid here halydai in gloteny..takyng and fillyng hemself owte of mesure more þan hem nedid.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 556 Whan Morgan le Fay saw hym dede, she made grete sorow oute of reson.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Esdras iii. 7 Of him came..people, & kynreddes out of nombre.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Bi A man doubteles owte of comparison.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 136 b It is out of all controversie that Adam..was endued with wonderfull and absolute freedome of will.
1615 W. Bedwell tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ i. §10 That is out of doubt true.
a1667 P. Mundy Trav. (1914) II. xvi. 249 Wee stayed by this Towne..being out of possibilitie to attaine Jalore.
1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 329 Why look ye Mistress, says he, I won't be out of Reason with you then.
1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. III. 146 His celestial history is more out of the Common.
1893 Law Times 95 29/2 It was expected that the meeting..would be a little out of the ordinary.
1940 Aeronautics Nov. 44/3 Flight tests have shown that more than one glider can be towed by an aeroplane, so that a glider train is not out of question.
2002 Chicago Tribune 3 Mar. ii. 5/2 The study of all these records indicates that nothing out of the ordinary was taking place..on board the submarine.
c. Outside, having deviated from (the correct procedure or conduct); in error concerning. Cf. out adv. 25c.
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c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 315 (MED) For ȝour iuggiment out of cours, haue ȝe muche maugree..if þe sarsyn ouercompþ him..ȝe bereþ þe gilt.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 209 (MED) Þe pape sauh out of cours þe wikkednes of Jon.
1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties ii. f. 85 He spake manie thinges notablie, but this, oute of course.
1691 W. Nicholls Answer Naked Gospel 57 I am afraid he is a little out of his Chronology again.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 204 I was perfectly out of my Duty.
1786 J. Burgoyne Heiress i. i. 10 You keep in tune..but you are continually out of time, and all-ways thrumming the same key.
1835 W. Cotton Ship & Shore 154 He frequently finds himself so far out of his reckoning, that it costs him many troublesome tacks..to enable him to bring up the leeway.
1896 T. L. De Vinne in Moxon's Mech. Exerc.: Printing (new ed.) II. 403 Some characters must purposely be out of drawing.
1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches 104 Locking plate striking can become out of step with the time shown.
1994 Nat. Health Nov. 96/1 You become susceptible to disease when your constitution is out of balance.
10.
a. Not in (a particular physical or mental state or condition); without (a certain quality, etc.).out of sorts: see sort n.2 14; out of one's mind: see mind n.1 20c.
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c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (1973) 1258 Þes keiser..as mon þet bigon to weden & to wurðen ut of his ahne witte, wodeliche zeide.
a1350 (?c1225) King Horn (Harl.) (1901) 1090 (MED) Þer seh he rymenild sitte ase hue were out of wytte, wepinde sore.
c1390 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 494 He kan no difference fynde Bitwix a man that is out of his mynde And a man which that is dronkelewe.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 194 (MED) Morphea is a passioun þat þe skyn is out of his propir colour.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 207 Thei ben out of eese whanne thei seen tho dedis and gouernauncis doon.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 1080 She was nygh ought of her mynde for wratthe.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. vii. 170 His whole armye was quite disordered and out of aray.
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse ii. sig. C2 The bodily habit being out of temper, the minde hath no liuely willingnes to the contemplation of vertue.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xi. 58 A froward old woman who was never out of wrangling.
1685 J. Dryden Threnodia Augustalis i. 2 It took us unprepar'd and out of guard.
1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 55 Her Mouth is out of Taste.
1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry (1937) I. i. 78 I am quite out of patience with this postscript.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xv. 325 ‘Weel, weel, Mrs. Heukbane,’ answered Mrs. Mailsetter, a little out of humour, and even out of countenance.
1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) I. 44 I was too tired and out of spirits to eat or drink much.
a1953 E. O'Neill Long Day's Journey (1956) iv. 151 I play so badly now. I'm all out of practice.
1982 ‘C. J. Cherryh’ Merchanter's Luck ix. 104 Sandor sat and smoldered, out of appetite with the temper that was boiling in him.
b. out of oneself: beside oneself or greatly discomposed as a result of an emotion or experience, as anger, surprise, etc.; (temporarily) out of one's mind or senses.
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c1400 (a1349) R. Rolle Meditations on Passion (Cambr.) in Eng. Writings (1931) 22 (MED) Os a womman owt of hyreselve hyre handys sche wrong.
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 6 And he was so sore afraied and aferde, that he ranne awaie as he had be oute of hym selff.
1557 R. Edgeworth Serm. very Fruitfull xvii. f. cclxxv Men out of them selues, in such hot and perilous times.
1613 J. Floyd Purgatories Triumph ouer Hell 67 If you lay on his exposition the former reproach of Noddie, you may iustly be thought more then half out of your self.
a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iv. v. 313 Imagine, if you can, what Polexander's joy, or rather extasie was, at the recitall of this good fortune; he was a while as out of himselfe.
1716 A. Pope Further Acct. E. Curll 8 I never perceived he was out of himself, till that melancholy Day that he thought he was poison'd in a Glass of Sack.
1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain (1879) i. xix. 192 But Tom, who seemed fairly out of himself, would not stir.
1937 ‘A. Bridge’ Enchanter's Nightshade 292 She must have been quite out of herself to do such a thing. Leaving the girl alone on the road!
1963 M. Allingham China Governess (2016) vi. 78 He was so angry he was out of himself altogether.
2002 M. Elphinstone Hy Brasil (2003) 330 I think I was fairly out of myself just seeing it.
11. Outside the limits of (an action, faculty, power, etc.), as out of hearing, reach, sight, etc.out of sight, out of mind: see mind n.1 1d.
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c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 39 (MED) Ha understonden ham & warpeð ut wið strengðe ut of hare heorte unwreaste willes þet ich ham in warpe.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 65/14 Huanne he zayþ ‘zuo god me helpe’..and he lyeze, he deþ him out of þe helpe..of god.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 2181 (MED) Busily were thei a bowe schote out of þe burnes siȝt.
a1425 in R. H. Bowers Three Middle Eng. Relig. Poems (1963) 24 (MED) Wen Ihesu was oute of ther syght Of the postells left ther no wyght.
a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 30 (MED) Whan man is oute of siȝt [L. ab oculis], sone he passiþ oute of mynde.
?a1534 H. Medwall Nature ii. sig. giiiiv So that I may stand out of daunger Of gon shot.
1589 R. Robinson Golden Mirrour sig. Dv Then out of sight, she [sc. Fame] tooke her flight.
1650 Maxwell Mem. I. 358 Bidding them keepe themselfes therafter out of the sight of ill neighboris.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 407. ¶2 He is placed quite out of their Hearing.
a1766 F. Sheridan Concl. Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph (1770) IV. 92 Put up on a shelf..to be out of both their reaches.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 549 The entrance of the Zuyder Zee was out of their jurisdiction.
1882 Times 12 July 5 Our gunboats..were supposed to be out of range.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xii. 45 He tormented Philip cruelly, and, though Philip tried to keep out of his way..it was impossible.
1967 B. Cleary Mitch & Amy i. 15 Mitchell ducking and sidestepping Amy and always managing to stay out of her grasp.
1980 V. S. Pritchett Edge of Cliff 11 They found a bank on the seaward side out of the wind.
12.
a. Obtained or derived from; taken from (a work of fiction, etc.); †made from (obsolete). Also (now regional): originating from (a place).
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c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 1441 (MED) Þe jueles out of jsrlem [read jerusalem]..Bi þe syde of þe sale were semely arayed.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 86 (MED) Þer is comyn with him knyȝt of landis dyuerse, Segis of many syde oute of sere remys.
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 17 (heading) A way to purge and make clean troubled waters, out of Bulcasis.
1584 A. Barlowe in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) iii. 730 If they haue any [tooles], they are very fewe, and those it seemes they had twentie yeeres since, which..was out of a wracke.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. i. 15 Hee that will haue a cake out of the wheate must tarry the grynding. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 124 They say it is a Coppy out of mine. View more context for this quotation
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 82 The Customs out of this Sea were very great.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 121. ¶5 I shall add to this Instance out of Mr. Lock another out of the learned Dr. Moor.
1793 J. Woodforde Diary 5 Mar. (1929) IV. 12 I..spent an Hour with Mrs. Jeanes and her Cousin, a Miss Mist out of the West Country.
1896 D. S. Meldrum Grey Mantle 233 There was a talk o' a professor out o' Edinburgh.
1935 P. G. Wodehouse Blandings Castle x. 253 Kind of tough and ugly he looks, like something out of a gangster film.
1980 Blair & Ketchum's Country Jrnl. Oct. 54/2 Bobby Wilson out of Gloucester used to tail them to mess up their sonar with the throb of his engines.
1991 J. O'Connor Cowboys & Indians (1992) 1 Eddie's face looked like something out of a Pre-Raphaelite painting.
b. Of an animal, esp. a horse: borne by (a particular mother). Also in extended use.
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1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 221 She's out of Crescent that ran a very good third for the Oaks.
1881 E. D. Brickwood in Encycl. Brit. XII. 184/2 Both grandsons of Eclipse and both out of Herod mares.
1950 ‘P. Woodruff’ Island of Chamba vii. 110 Their [sc. Muslims'] thought has the same pedigree as ours: by Greece out of Palestine.
1983 P. Gzowski Unbroken Line iii. 179 He took a liking to a colt out of the mare Fair Colleen.
13. Lacking or deprived of (a commodity, etc., previously or normally possessed).
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a1500 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Rawl.) (1974) 168 (MED) And now we must leve the feldis deserte and abandone them to wylde bestis and to them that be dispurveid and owt of all confortes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. vii. 148 These English are shrowdly out of Beefe. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. iii. 39 I am out a friends Madam. View more context for this quotation
1653 Z. Bogan Medit. Mirth Christian Life 271 If they be in poverty..yet shall they not be..cleane out of cash.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. ii. ix. 144 A Servant came running in, out of Breath, and cried out. View more context for this quotation
1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall (1823) II. 64 He returned not long since, out of money, and out at elbows.
1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance x, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 189 Furnishing sugar or vinegar to..families that found themselves unexpectedly ‘out of’ those indispensable commodities.
1884 G. Hastings in Law Times Rep. 50 175/1 On that view of the case also they are out of time, as they took no steps in the matter until Oct. 1883.
1948 T. Williams Let. 10 July in Five O'Clock Angel (1991) 5 Needless to say I am completely out of laundry and am wearing continually a midnight blue shirt.
1986 D. Johnson Stars at Noon (1987) 43 I'm out of shampoo.
14. Not, or no longer, in (use, employment, service, etc.).See also out of work adv., adj., and n.
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1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xx. sig. fiv Frugalite; the acte wherof is at this day..infrequent or out of vse amonge all sortes of men.
1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. This Poet..hath labored to restore, as to their rightfull heritage, such good and naturall English wordes, as have beene long time out of use, and almost cleane disherited.
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. B3 Alas poore slaue, see how pouerty iesteth in his nakednesse, the vilaine is bare, and out of seruice.
1620 Dumbarton Kirk-session Rec. 3 in Dumbarton Burgh Rec. (1860) Becaus sche was out of service.
1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas Pref. 13 When they were out of Pay, they look'd upon themselves as their own Masters.
a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) I. 155 In short, these kind of pendulums are now entirely out of use.
1812 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) II. 38 Two governesses out of place.
1890 W. Booth In Darkest Eng. ii. v. 167 We found them both out of work, home furnitureless, in debt.
1936 G. B. Shaw Millionairess iii, in Simpleton, Six, & Millionairess 174 You might as well ask me to pay trade union wages as do all that the inspector wants: I should be out of business in a week.
1976 J. Lukasiewicz Railway Game 101 The slide detector fence had been out of service for several weeks.
1989 Best 14 Apr. 26/3 Once treated and out of action, the vein will simply disappear.
15. to be out of it.
a. Not involved or included in an action or event.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [adverb] > detached or non-participating
to be out of it1830
aloofly1891
1830 M. Edgeworth Let. 8 Dec. (1971) 442 Poor Davies Gilbert to whom the place was in every way unsuited is well out of it. I hope he thinks so.
1880 Punch 25 Dec. 299/1 I was out of it, jolly clean out of it.
a1902 S. Butler Way of All Flesh (1903) xii. 54 Christina pictured herself and Theobald..but always towards the end of her vision there came a little coronation scene..and here even Theobald himself was out of it.
1973 ‘R. Lewis’ Of Singular Purpose vii. 157 You're well out of it, Harry. Believe me, you're well out of it.
1991 G. Keillor WLT: Radio Romance xli. 372 They could whoop and curse and screech filth on the air, it was no reflection on him, he was out of it now.
b. Removed or distant from the centre or heart of something; isolated; uninformed.
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1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 June 4/1 Indeed, ‘C’ Troop..has been rather ‘out of it’ in the matter of field service.
1904 H. James Golden Bowl I. i. xxi. 344 He..moved her by..taking pity..on her just discernible depression... He guessed that she felt herself, as the slang was, out of it.
1959 News Chron. 10 July 3/4 Bungalow dwellers..may well have felt out of it.
1989 R. MacNeil Wordstruck iv. 92 Embarrassed to be so out of it, I had to admit I didn't know the difference.
c. slang (originally U.S.). Confused, stupefied, or unconscious, esp. after consuming drink or drugs; (also) unable to think or react properly as a result of being tired.Quot. 1959 appears to have a somewhat different meaning.
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1959 Amer. Speech 34 143 One who is extremely happy is on cloud 88 or out of it.]
1963 Amer. Speech 38 174 Drunk: soused, out of it, stoned, bombed.
1972 in J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1997) II. 731/1 Out of it means completely worn out, pooped.
1973 Black Panther 27 Oct. 12/3 James Jenkins..describes several inmates on ‘F’ block, who were once ‘sharp dudes’ as being ‘completely out of it’ following ‘therapeutic sedation’.
1997 Sun 26 Dec. 38/2 When my head hit the pitch I was out of it.
16. colloquial (originally U.S.) to be out of here (also there): to be leaving (a place, situation), esp. precipitately; to have left. Frequently in proleptic use.
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1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 29/2 So I shook loose and good-by, I was out of there.
1980 L. Birnbach et al. Official Preppy Handbk. 223 8 Exit Lines... ‘We're out of here’.
1990 P. Auster Music of Chance vii. 170 ‘Just beat it’... ‘I'm already out of here.’
1994 Rolling Stone 29 Dec. 113/2 I didn't really care because I knew I was leaving. I was out of there.

Compounds

out-of- with a noun, used attributively as a phrasal adjective.When such a phrase as out of the way is used predicatively, as in ‘the place lies rather out of the way’, the elements are written apart, but when used attributively as in ‘a curious out-of-the-way place’, the elements are hyphenated and the whole becomes an adjectival phrase. The number of these is indefinite.See also out of date adj. and adv., out of doors adv., adj., and n., out-of-fashion adj., out-of-the-way adj., adv., and n., out of time adv. and adj., etc.See also under the nouns themselves for non-attributive uses.
C1. out-of-breath, out-of-round, out-of-true, out-of-truth: see the second element.
out-of-centre adj.
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1901 Daily Chron. 16 Nov. 3/3 The book has passages of real feeling and flashes of intuitive insight, but as a whole it is out-of-centre, lumbering, and occasionally tedious.
1986 Glaswegian Dec. 16/1 Out-of-centre shops which have bigger and better car parks have become more popular.
out-of-condition adj.
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1972 ‘C. Fremlin’ Appointment with Yesterday xi. 85 She should have realised that her middle-aged, out-of-condition body would..rebel.
1999 C. Hulme Manslaughter United ii. 20 The team's thirty-three-year-old vice-captain..looked like a wealthy, out-of-condition boxer.
out-of-context adj.
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1940 Econometrica 8 191 Our national indexes of wealth, income,..etc., are out-of-context summations of such data.
1992 Spy (N.Y.) Aug. 14/1 Ted Koppel read the entire letter, not just out-of-context bites.
† out-of-elbow adj. Obsolete
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > ragged or tattered
fitteredc1380
rattedc1400
fluttered1589
shagged-ragged1612
betattereda1704
tatterly1739
Falstaffian1809
out-of-elbowa1820
shreddy1835
raggedy1836
a1820 J. R. Drake To Prince Croaker in Poems (1935) 284 How is it, Hal, thy out-of-elbow spirit Should throw thy liquid caustic in the air.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 20 May 5/3 When one looks at these out-of-elbow men slouching along.
out-of-employment adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > lack of work > [adjective]
out of work1833
labourless1845
unemployed1854
out-of-employment1898
1898 Westm. Gaz. 14 Feb. 8/2 Out-of-employment claims rose from £441..in 1896 to £710 last year.
1999 Jrnl. Labor Econ. 17 674 The Canadian Out-of-Employment Panel (COEP).
out-of-form adj.
ΚΠ
1843 H. B. Stowe Mayflower 211 An out-of-time, out-of-place, out-of-form sort of a boy, with whom nothing prospered.
1991 Hindu (Madras) 6 Dec. 14/3 National cricket selection committee chairman, Mr. Naren Tamhane, is against sending replacements for out-of-form players now touring Australia.
out-of-hours adj.
ΚΠ
1948 Social Forces 27 150/2 The margin of personal choice in out-of-hours social life is much smaller in the Navy than in most other occupations.
1988 Update 15 Oct. 736/2 Nonpsychiatric care and out of hours cover is expected to be provided by general practitioners.
out-of-humour adj.
ΚΠ
1692 C. Gildon Post-boy rob'd of his Mail I. Ep. Ded. sig. A2v A pale meagre Face, an out of Humour look.
1821 W. Combe Third Tour Dr. Syntax xxxvii. 215 In this out-of-humour hour, Syntax was soften'd by their power.
1904 N.E.D. at Out of Out-of-humour.
out-of-joint adj.
ΚΠ
1858 Ladies' Repository Oct. 610 This out-of-joint looseness in pronouncing the Latin, has been one of the efficient causes of our decline in classic scholarship.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 13 June 4/3 That it is a ‘cursed spite’ which sets him to remedy the out-of-joint time.
1991 Science 2 Aug. Index 488 An out-of-joint U.S.-Soviet conference.
out-of-key adj.
ΚΠ
1962 Times 17 Jan. 13/1 The..slightly out-of-key episode with the travelling salesman.
1997 New Yorker 3 Nov. 88/1 Certain spicy, nearly out-of-key notes.
† out-of-livery adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1833 Lady Morgan Manor Sackville i, in Dramatic Scenes I. 20 The out-of-livery servants, sir, and a young woman as called herself my Lady's own chambermaid.
1846 Ecclesiologist 5 142 Out-of-livery servants might be admitted.
out-of-office adj.
ΚΠ
1899 Amer. Hist. Rev. 4 370 Gouverneur Morris, the most discouraged of all this band of out-of-office patriots.
1992 Fly Rod & Reel Jan. 38/1 He must be..restrained from such out-of-office activity as scratching his initials on cave walls next to ancient petroglyphs.
out-of-phase adj.
ΚΠ
1933 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 142 105 The only important effect..being to entail..smaller out-of-phase movements in the other normal co-ordinates to which it is coupled.
1997 W. Shatner Avenger xxvi. 231 A splotchy collection of coarse pixels, shimmering with out-of-phase color and motion.
out-of-reach adj.
ΚΠ
1891 ‘M. O'Rell’ Frenchman in Amer. 318 As one might gaze at some coveted but out-of-reach fruit.
1946 Amer. Slavic & East European Rev. 5 196 He..speaks about his ‘out-of-reach’ birthplace.
1995 Times 9 June 8/8 People look at our Parliament and they despise it because it is full of arrogant, out-of-reach men.
out-of-school adj.
ΚΠ
1867 J. W. Hales in F. W. Farrar Ess. Lib. Educ. 308 Pupils who enjoyed so few out-of-school advantages.
1930 Times Educ. Suppl. 26 July 329/3 Organizational activities are relegated to out-of-school hours.
1997 Times Educ. Suppl. 18 July 22/1 A Science 2000 roadshow visits schools and out-of-school clubs.
out-of-season adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adjective]
untimec1000
untidya1225
untimesa1300
out of season1377
undue1398
out of time1483
untimeousa1500
importunate1529
inopportune1533
importunea1535
unconvenable1542
intempestive1548
unseasonable1561
untimeable1570
out-of-season1574
untimely1581
unseasoned1589
baldc1590
timeless1590
melancounterous?1602
untimelessa1607
unopportune1653
mistimelyc1680
mistimed1687
ill-timed1692
ill-seasoned1843
unchancy1860
intempestuous1885
unseasonal1935
the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adjective] > for time of year
out-of-season1574
untimely1576
1574 R. Robinson Rewarde of Wickednesse l. 264 Eache finger of his hande, as bare as angling hookes, His bellye as thinne, as out of season flowkes.
1899 H. James Awkward Age iv. 29 The place had, moreover, a confessed out-of-season vacancy.
1999 S. Campbell Walled Kitchen Gardens 11 More tender plants or ‘forced’ (out-of-season) crops were grown in frames or on hotbeds.
out-of-sync adj.
ΚΠ
1948 Proc. IRE 36 904/1 The effect would be to prolong excessively the out-of-sync condition whenever a discontinuity occurred in the transmitted sync signal.
1993 Rolling Stone 14 Oct. 108/1 Short Cuts..features his emotionally out-of-sync relationship with Moore.
out-of-the-beaten track adj.
ΚΠ
1904 N.E.D. at Out of Out-of-the-beaten-track.
1992 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 20 Nov. They also want to rent a car, see the country, tour out-of-the-beaten track sites [etc.].
out-of-the-body adj.
ΚΠ
1946 G. N. M. Tyrrell Personality of Man vii. xxii. 199 These out-of-the-body cases are of exceptional interest..the percipients describe the process of getting out of their bodies in almost identical terms.
1990 L. Picknett Encycl. Paranormal 96/1 A woman being tortured with electrodes by the Gestapo escaped the agony by inducing an out-of-the-body experience.
out-of-the-common adj.
ΚΠ
1890 J. Hatton By Order of Czar (1891) 91 She..was a pleasant, cultured, odd, out-of-the-common hostess.
out-of-the-ordinary adj.
ΚΠ
1895 Amer. Naturalist 29 650 Domestic and social habits, out-of-the-ordinary conduct..and a variety of other interesting bits of information..are discussed in an easy, colloquial style.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Oct. 788/1 A disturbing..absolutely out-of-the ordinary life-story.
1992 Sky Mag. (Delta Airlines) Dec. 18/2 Out-of-the-ordinary happenings also created corporate memories.
out-of-the-season adj.
ΚΠ
1955 Times 3 May 4/2 Permission has been given by the Rugby Union for the Coventry team to play an out-of-the-season game.
out-of-the-world adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [adjective] > remote or outlying
out of the wayc1175
uplandishc1380
foreign1424
outland1500
outlying1651
outsetting1658
back country1775
out-of-the-world1775
outlandish1792
outworld1808
upcountry1810
backwoodish1836
fresh water1860
backwoodsy1862
way back1884
outstate1911
upstate1935
1775 A. Grant Let. 10 Mar. in Lett. from Mountains (1806) I. 206 My out of the world education.
1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne I. iv. 127 Living in such an out-of-the-world place.
1999 Western Gaz. (Electronic ed.) 30 Sept. Maitreya's debut album..is an out-of-the-world experience.
out-of-use adj.
ΚΠ
1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. (ed. 2) II. 260 When the old out-of-use Husband wou'd not comply, he was not afraid to sue the Gentleman.
1999 Leicester Mercury (Electronic ed.) 15 July Owners of out-of-use rural buildings in Harborough have been branded apathetic.
out-of-wedlock adj.
ΚΠ
1948 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 17 125/1 This series, however, does not include a follow-up to the out-of-wedlock birth study.
1994 Denver Post 2 Jan. a2/5 Parents told little white fibs about out-of-wedlock births.
C2.
out-of-awareness adj. and adv.
ΚΠ
1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 11 36 When one hears the paralanguage of a speaker, one first, rapidly and out-of-awareness, establishes the base line of the speaker.
1974 Florida FL Reporter 13 11/2 Children work on language in an out-of-awareness situation.
C3.
out-of-bounds adj. and n.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [adjective] > prohibited (of an area) > outside permitted area
out-of-bounds1857
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun] > area not part of course
out-of-bounds1857
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. ix. 219 Many of the old wild out-of-bounds habits stuck to them as firmly as ever.
1895 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Oct. 9/1 That long and perilous hole between the out-of-bounds field on the one side and the broken, rabbit-burrowed ground on the other.
1947 M. Lowry Let. 24 July (1967) 150 Into what roughs, out-of-bounds and quagmires we shall get ere the book be finished..one knows not.
2000 Sunday Times 23 July (Sports section) 6/2 Ballesteros secured par but..Watson drove perilously close to the out-of-bounds at the same hole.
out-of-focus adj. and n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [adjective]
higheOE
dighela1000
deepc1000
darkOE
starkOE
dusk?c1225
subtle1340
dimc1350
subtilea1393
covert1393
mystica1398
murka1400
cloudyc1400
hard?c1400
mistyc1400
unclearc1400
diffuse1430
abstractc1450
diffused?1456
exquisitec1460
obnubilous?a1475
obscure?a1475
covered1484
intricate?a1500
nice?a1500
perplexeda1500
difficilea1513
difficult1530
privy1532
smoky1533
secret1535
abstruse?1549
difficul1552
entangled1561
confounded1572
darksome1574
obnubilate1575
enigmatical1576
confuse1577
mysteriousa1586
Delphic1598
obfuscatea1600
enfumed1601
Delphicala1603
obstruse1604
abstracted1605
confused1611
questionable1611
inevident1614
recondite1619
cryptic1620
obfuscated1620
transcendent1624
Delphian1625
oraculous1625
enigmatic1628
recluse1629
abdite1635
undilucidated1635
clouded1641
benighted1647
oblite1650
researched1653
obnubilated1658
obscurative1664
tenebrose1677
hyperbyssal1691
condite1695
diffusive1709
profound1710
tenebricose1730
oracular1749
opaque1761
unenlightening1768
darkling1795
offuscating1798
unrecognizable1817
tough1820
abstrusive1848
obscurant1878
out-of-focus1891
unplumbable1895
inenubilable1903
non-transparent1939
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > [adjective] > obscure, vague
cloudyc1400
indeterminatec1400
diffuse1430
diffused?1456
obscure?a1475
infinite1520
ambiguous1529
indistincta1530
nubilous1533
dark1557
undetermined1588
undefinite1589
undeterminate1603
indetermined1611
undefined1611
suspense1624
umbrageous1635
clouded1641
undeterminated1641
fuliginous1646
implicit1660
vague1690
diffusive1709
nubilose1730
foggy1737
unliquidated1780
hazy1781
indecisive1815
nebulous1817
penumbral1819
aoristic1846
scumbled1868
nubiform1873
out-of-focus1891
fuzzy1937
soft focus1938
1891 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 48 Persons who admire out-of-focus art.
1946 Nature 30 Nov. 786/1 Thus any error in magnification due to slight out-of-focus in one camera was compensated by the other.
1989 Face Jan. 62/2 At his worst Baudrillard is like a persistent neighbour who insists on showing you his out-of-focus holiday snaps.
out-of-pocket adj. and n.
ΚΠ
1885 Law Times Rep. 52 545/1 The plaintiffs..incurred various out-of-pocket expenses.
1973 ‘I. Drummond’ Jaws of Watchdog vii. 92 He was to be paid £15,000 in used notes, for his own pay-off and his out-of-pocket.
1994 Amer. Scientist Oct. 451/3 Let us ignore the out-of-pocket costs of travel.
out-of-tune adj. and n.
ΚΠ
a1625 Women Pleas'd (1647) iv. i Thou out of tune-Psalm-singing Slave; spit in his visnomy?
a1784 G. A. Stevens May in Songs, Comic & Satyrical (1788) 74 Home heavily sighing, I halted along, Each bird jarr'd my head with its out-of-tune song.
1803 H. Wynne Diary 6 July (1940) III. 83 A beautifull out of tune Symphony, consisting of hair~dressers, butchers, &c. opened the play.
1998 M. Bail Eucalyptus (1999) i. 6 The man's voice could be heard singing out-of-tune songs.
C4. Parasynthetic.
a.
† out-of-humoured adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife ii. 27 Every raw peevish, out-of-humour'd, affected..Fop.
a1689 A. Behn Younger Brother (1696) iii. i. 27 I have known an Old Batter'd Bully of Seventy, unmarry'd, more agreeable for a Gallant, than any scurvy, out-of-Humour'd Husband at Eight and Twenty.
† out-of-the-worldish adj. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 18 383 Wordsworth has a grave, solemn, pedantic, awkward, out-of-the-worldish look about him.
† out-of-the-worldly adj. Obsolete rare
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > [adjective] > detached from worldly concerns
worldless1662
unworldly1825
out-of-the-worldly1895
1895 G. Saintsbury Ess. Eng. Lit. 2nd Ser. 103 De Quincey was still more bookish and out-of-the-worldly.
out-of-tunish adj.
ΚΠ
1789 J. Wolcot Ld. B. & Eunuch in Wks. (1792) III. 112 Now came an out-of-tunish note.
1996 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 12 July 4 Ragged guitar solos, out-of-tunish touches and the like.
b.
out-of-breathness n.
ΚΠ
1900 E. Glyn Visits of Elizabeth 98 His snorts of out-of-breathness could be heard for miles.
1999 Ottawa Sun (Nexis) 23 Dec. 6 Sharron added..‘excuse my out-of-breathness’..before she hung up.
† out-of-elbowness n. Obsolete rare
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > [noun]
waedlec888
wanspeedc893
wanea1100
wandrethc1175
miseasea1200
povertya1225
lowness?c1225
needc1225
orcostc1225
poorness?a1300
unwealtha1300
defaultc1300
porailc1325
straitnessa1340
poorhead1340
mischiefa1375
miseasetya1382
needinessa1382
misterc1385
indigencec1386
scarcitya1387
noughtc1400
scantnessc1400
necessity?1406
penurya1425
povertnessa1434
exilitya1439
wantc1450
scarcenessc1475
needinga1500
povertiesa1500
penurity?a1505
poortith?a1513
debility1525
tenuity1535
leanness1550
lack1555
Needham1577
inopy1581
pinching1587
dispurveyance1590
egency1600
macritude1623
penuriousness1630
indigency1631
needihood1648
necessitousness1650
egestuosity1656
straitened circumstancesa1766
unopulence1796
Queer Street1811
lowliness1834
breadlessness1860
unwealthiness1886
out-of-elbowness1890
secondary poverty1901
Short Street1920
1890 Murray's Mag. Aug. 230 An air of decadence, almost of out-of-elbowness.
† out-of-humourness n. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1803 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 441 Much allowance is due to Burnett's out-of-humourness.
out-of-jointness n.
ΚΠ
1904 N.E.D. at Out of Out-of-jointness.
2001 Village Voice (Nexis) 9 Oct. 71 This split-focus effect only exacerbates..sensations of disorientation and out-of-jointness.
out-of-the-worldness n.
ΚΠ
1876 H. Sidgwick Let. 24 Aug. in A. Sidgwick & E. M. Sidgwick Henry Sidgwick (1906) 323 There is a great charm in this scenery and in the feeling of out-of-the-world-ness.
1957 M. Stewart Thunder on Right iii. 38 The out-of-the-worldness of the place pressed heavily upon her.
out-of-touchness n.
ΚΠ
1952 M. Lowry Let. May (1967) 317 The essential..points are too often clouded as a result of the technical out-of-touchness of the writing.
1996 Daily Tel. 26 Jan. 24/6 The arrogance and evasiveness and out-of-touchness of Ms Harman and kind.
out-of-trueness n.
ΚΠ
1921 Spectator 26 Feb. 268/2 When you start your wall there seems by eye very little or nothing wrong with it, but when you have got it up some thirty or forty feet the out-of-trueness is appalling.
out-of-tuneness n.
ΚΠ
1900 R. Broughton Foes in Law xx. 291 Her tone expresses such utter out-of-tuneness that he looks at her, startled.
2000 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide II. i. 47/2 The ‘out-of-tuneness’ which I had attributed to bad musicianship was actually an intentional layering of different intonations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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