outscent

English

Etymology

out- +‎ scent

Verb

outscent (third-person singular simple present outscents, present participle outscenting, simple past and past participle outscented)

1. (transitive) To exceed in odour.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:

     This he did to qualify the infamy of Garnet's death , and that the perfume of this new title might outscent the stench of his treason.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “outscent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• countest, ctenotus, scent out