单词 | outsee |
释义 | outseev. 1. transitive. To see better or further than; to surpass in insight. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > types of vision > [verb (transitive)] > surpass in sight outsee1605 1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles v. sig. H4 You that can out-see cleere-ey'd iealousie. 1850 R. W. Emerson Shakspeare in Representative Men v. 207 What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? 1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 138 It is nothing to him [sc. Man] to be distanced..in vision by the eagle: his field-glass out-sees it. 1985 Sat. Evening Post (Nexis) Apr. 46 Somebody else from Iowa said, ‘I see 'em too.’ And the California people, not to be outseen, yelled, ‘There they are!’ 1993 Federal News Service (Nexis) 18 Oct. The new Army will be able to outmaneuver, outsee and outshoot our enemies in major regional conflicts. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > look over or beyond overlook1559 outsee1642 outlook1653 1642 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (new ed.) 94 Whose eyes shall easily out-see the Sunne, and behold without a Perspective, the extreamest distances. 1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) xiii. 137 Fancy and nature cannot out-see time, nor see over or beyond death. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 78 Our Posterity may come by Glasses to out-see the Sun, and discover Bodies in the remote Universe. 1837 R. W. Emerson Misc. 92 Would we be blind? Do we fear lest we should outsee nature and God? 1865 H. Spencer Social Statics (new ed.) 230 Thus writes Blackstone, to whom let all honour be given for having so far outseen the ideas of his time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1605 |
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