单词 | outbrave |
释义 | outbravev. 1. transitive. To face with a show of defiance; to stand out against bravely or defiantly. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > defy stout1303 defy1377 beard1476 brave1546 brag1551 outface1574 to hold (a person) waga1578 dare1580 outbrave1589 bedarea1596 maugre1597 championa1616 to bid defiance to1632 stem1675 bravadea1698 bravo1732 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. ** Who..think to outbraue better pens with the swelling bumbast of a bragging blanke verse. 1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre v. 200 Let him therefore only outbraue danger, not wooe it. 1684 B. Keach Progress of Sin iii. 58 The King of Darkness the first Onset gave; Thinking his Foe to startle or outbrave. 1727 D. Hume Let. 4 July (1932) I. 10 For the perfectly Wise man that outbraves Fortune is surely greater than the Husbandman who slips by her. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 20 Instead of guarding against the inclemency of the weather, they outbrave it. 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. xii. 326 The Duke sat outfacing his accusers, and outbraving their accusations. 1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 325 Fiery shadows, hence! I have outbraved ye once. 1931 T. S. Moore Danae in Poems 213 Has he given His oracle, yet, still out-braving heaven, Standeth thy coward boast of hollow brass? Oh vanity of vanities, alas! 1956 Amer. Lit. 28 305 She courageously outbraves her reproachful tormentor with a vow that she will not fear to face him before the Judgment Seat. 2. a. transitive. To outrival or surpass (in any quality); to outlive or outlast. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] overstyeOE overshinec1175 overgoc1225 passc1225 surmountc1369 forpassc1374 overmatcha1375 overpassa1382 to pass overa1393 overcomec1400 outpass?a1425 exceedc1425 precedec1425 superexcelc1429 transcendc1430 precel?a1439 outcut1447 overgrowc1475 to come over ——a1479 excel1493 overleapa1500 vanquish1533 outweigh1534 prevent1540 better1548 preferc1550 outgo1553 surpassa1555 exsuperate1559 cote1566 overtop1567 outrun1575 outstrip1579 outsail1580 overruna1586 pre-excel1587 outbid1589 outbrave1589 out-cote1589 top1590 outmatch1593 outvie1594 superate1595 surbravec1600 oversile1608 over-height1611 overstride1614 outdoa1616 outlustrea1616 outpeera1616 outstrikea1616 outrival1622 antecede1624 out-top1624 antecell1625 out-pitch1627 over-merit1629 outblazea1634 surmatch1636 overdoa1640 overact1643 outact1644 worst1646 overspana1657 outsoar1674 outdazzle1691 to cut down1713 ding1724 to cut out1738 cap1821 by-pass1848 overtower1850 pretergress1851 outray1876 outreach1879 cut1884 outperform1937 outrate1955 one-up1963 1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxx. 134 My husband, though by trade a Smith, for birth out-brau'd of none. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxii. 48 Liuells, a large Waste, which other plaines out-braues. 1658 A. Cokayne Small Poems 122 So small a pittance you of learning have, Their worst of Playes doth all your works outbrave. 1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 310 He affected every where..to out-brave them on all publick occasions. 1796 W. H. Marshall Planting I. 145 The North aspect of bleak and barren heights is the only situation in which it [sc. the Scotch fir] ought to be tolerated: and even there, the Larch is found to outbrave it. 1820 J. H. Wiffen Julia Alpinula xxxviii. 74 (note) An indestructible principle, outbraving the eloquent epitaphs of man, and surviving the wreck of his most splendid monuments. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Ootvie, or Ootbrave, to surpass; to persevere the longest. 1935 W. Plomer Fivefold Screen 47 And yet the triumph of decay Outbraves pride of bouncing fools. a1953 J. K. Baxter To my Wife in Coll. Poems (1980) ii Our love outbraves the gloom Of sin, death, change, and the rough hand of chance. b. transitive. To outdo or excel in beauty or attire. Cf. bravery n. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > splendour > excel in splendour [verb (transitive)] outbrave1589 out-brag1609 outglittera1623 outbloom1726 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. G2 Cupide dismounted from his mothers lappe..to outbraue the Thessalian dames in their beautie. 1597 J. Gerard Herball To Rdr. sig. C2v The Lillies of the field outbraued him. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Norw. 274 Solomon himself is out-braved therewith [sc.with a flower]. 1707 N. Tate Injur'd Love ii. 23 Her Room Out-brav'd the Stars with sundry kinds of Lights. 1785 T. Dwight Conquest of Canäan v. 113 O'er flowery beauties plumes of triumph waves; Imbibes their fragrance, and their charms out-braves. 1861 W. H. Dixon Personal Hist. Ld. Bacon vii. §21 The prodigal bridegroom,..clad in a suit of Genoese velvet, purple from cap to shoe, outbraves them all. 1894 A. C. Swinburne Astrophel 65 The lustrous foliage..Outbraves the pride of June With statelier semblance. 1952 Social Forces 30 447/1 Who does not outsparkle and outbrave the rival will be left on the shelf, and the shelf is large when there are many more women than men. 3. transitive. To outdo or surpass in bravery or daring. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > bravery or boldness > act bravely [verb] > to surpass in bravery outbrave1600 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. i. 28 I would..Out-braue the hart most daring on the earth..To win the Lady. View more context for this quotation 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 82 That those proud Airies,..Out-braue not this our kind in mettle. 1724 Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 33 58 The lesser being very revengeful, and naturally full of Courage, did outbrave even Mars himself in assaulting their Enemy. 1732 J. Mitchell Poems Several Occasions II. 297 Declares the Man out-brav'd by no Man, Who beds a lusty, rampant, Woman. 1814 Ld. Byron Lara ii. xiv. 1009 Outnumber'd, not outbrav'd, they still oppose Despair to daring, and a front to foes. 1880 Harper's Mag. Oct. 741/1 Indeed he was not to be outbraved by a couple of women. When we got to Kyle Akin, the dusk beginning to creep over land and sea, he showed no signs of running in there for shelter. 1918 H. E. Fosdick Challenge of Present Crisis iii. 45 They [sc. Quaker volunteers] have outbraved the brave in deeds of mercy on the battlefield. 1992 A. C. Richard Hispanic Image on Silver Screen 117 A few West Point cadets try to outbrave each other in the dangerous wilds of an unspecified South America jungle. Derivatives outˈbraved adj. rare ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [adjective] > defiant > defied outdared1597 defied1816 outbraved1870 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 129 Suffice it, that no outbraved death Might end him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1589 |
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