outcant

English

Etymology

out- +‎ cant

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʊtˈkænt/

Verb

outcant (third-person singular simple present outcants, present participle outcanting, simple past and past participle outcanted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To surpass in canting.
   • 1735, Alexander Pope, “The Second Satire of Dr. John Donne”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume II, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 47, lines 35–38:

     I paſs o'er all thoſe Confeſſors and Martyrs
     Who live like S—tt—n, or who die like Charters,
     Out-cant old Eſdras, or out-drink his Heir,
     Out-uſure Jews, or Iriſhmen out-ſwear; [...]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outcant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)