单词 | outgive |
释义 | outgivev. Originally Scottish. Now rare. a. transitive. To give out (something). Obsolete (poetic in later use). ΚΠ 1481 in H. Rose & L. Shaw Geneal. Deduction Family Rose of Kilravock (1848) 145 I sall nocht delyuer na ovt gywe na mater..for ovt the avice..off thir forsaidis personis. 1639 Minute Bk. Royal Coll. Surgeons Edinb. 143 Out gevin be him for ane sand glass for the vse of the craft the sowme of x s. a1729 E. Taylor Poems (1989) 163 My branch make green: my Rose ware vivid hew An Holy and a fragrant sent out give. 1869 G. H. Calvert Ellen 56 The grandsire, more controlled than all the rest, Outgave the riches of the written stores. b. intransitive. To issue coinage. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1601 in R. W. Cochran-Patrick Rec. Coinage Scotl. (1876) I. 200 To melt fyne work forge prent and outgif in the foirsaidis spaceis. 2. transitive. To outdo in giving, give more than. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > give more than another outgive1693 1693 C. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vii. 133 The bounteous Play'r out-gave the pinching Lord [L. quod non dant proceres, dabit histrio]. 1957 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 31 43 It most often happens that local industries in a city proportionately outgive the branch plant. 1989 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 76 551 The Bible says Paul plants, Apollos waters, but it's God that giveth the increase. And you can't outgive God. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > be at an end [verb (intransitive)] > come to an end, terminate, or expire to run outeOE endOE stintc1275 slakea1300 overpassc1350 determinec1374 overruna1393 dispend1393 failc1399 missa1400 to wear out, forth1412 stanchc1420 to come outa1450 terminea1450 expire?c1450 finish1490 conclude1593 upclose1603 terminate1608 to shut up1609 to wind off1650 stop1733 to fall in1771 close1821 to blaze out1884 outgive1893 to play out1964 1893 R. Bridges Shorter Poems v. xi. 31 And two days ere the year outgave We laid him low. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1481 |
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