outsearchv.
/ˌaʊtˈsəːtʃ/, U.S. /ˌaʊtˈsərtʃ/ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out, discover [verb (transitive)]
seeOE
fanda1000
finda1200
kenc1330
lenda1350
agropea1393
contrive1393
to find outc1405
outsearch?a1439
ripec1440
inventc1475
disclose?a1500
fish1531
agnize?1570
discover1585
to grope out1590
out-find1590
expiscate1598
vent1611
to learn out1629
to get to know1643
develop1653
ascertain1794
stag1796
root1866
to get a line on1903
establish1919
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iii. 1046 (MED) The mater..A-riht out serchid and the trouthe out founde, As a iust cause ondifferent to tweyne Toward vs bothe the quarell doth rebounde.
c1528 Everyman (1961) 72 Lorde, I wyll in the worlde go renne ouer-all And cruelly out-serche bothe grete and small.
c1550 M. Bucer Sentencious Sayings in J. Strype Mem. T. Cranmer (1694) App. 126 Christes sacraments..rather of us to be beleved, then by our naturall reason to be out-searched.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 238 Obadiah 6 How are the things of Esau searched out! lit. How are Esau outsearched.
2. transitive. To search more successfully or more efficiently than; to search more frequently or extensively.
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1983 Forth World Computer Chess Championship Results in net.chess (Usenet newsgroup) 27 Oct. Bebe, playing white, beat Nuchess in round 5 by winning a pawn with a combination of a rather dubious positional move by Nuchess and outsearching by Bebe.
1997 Home Office Computing (Nexis) Mar. 60 Can you outsearch our researchers? Compare your times and data found with our pros' efforts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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