outblotv.
/ˌaʊtˈblɒt/, U.S. /ˌaʊtˈblɑt/ poetic. Now rare.
transitive. To blot out.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)]
dilghec897
scrape1303
washc1380
fade1398
razea1425
out-razec1425
racec1450
enrasea1492
stramp1535
wipe1535
facec1540
cancel1559
outblot1573
to wash out1580
to blur out1581
obliterate1607
efface1611
dislimna1616
excerebrate1621
demark1655
rufflea1680
erase1695
scrub1828
overscore1834
elide1846
trash1859
to wipe (off) the slate1921
1573 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalmes cix. ii. xiii. 75 Their name out blotted in the age, that after shal succede.
a1600 Floddan Field (1664) iii. 32 The chief renown eke of your child Your beastish acts should clear out-blot.
1630 J. Taylor Wks. 310 Obliuion cannot my braue acts out blot.
a1794 S. Blamire Poet. Wks. (1842) 168 But May and Tibby will out blot them!
a1876 J. Addis Elizabethan Echoes (1879) 16 The heavy fog-wreaths rise..Out~blot the wavering distance.
1901 Academy 7 Dec. 572/1 Men, whose sin He would outblot, Ye alone receive Him not.
1917 E. Pound Personae (1949) 221 Your glory is not outblotted by venom, Phoebus our witness, your hands are unspotted.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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