outsum

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outsum (third-person singular simple present outsums, present participle outsumming, simple past and past participle outsummed)

(transitive, archaic) To exceed in number or quantity.
- 1852, George Henry Boker, The Podesta's Daughter, and Other Miscellaneous Poems, page 38:
  She kept her faith; though Odo came by day With missions from the castle that outsummed
  His several hairs, and were of less respect; […]
- 1937, William Plumer Jacobs, Thornwell Jacobs, Diary of William Plumer Jacobs, page 461:
  May thirtieth — I thank thee O Lord, in that thou hast made our support fund to outsum the preceding year by $2500. We received thru thy graciousness, $34,800.
(transitive) To exceed in total; outweigh
- 1851, Caroline Sheridan Norton, Stuart of Dunleath, page 127:
  No one else cared for him; but he had an instinct that her great love for him outsummed all he could hope from others.
- 1985, Kay McMahon, Wild Rapture, page 65:
  Nicholas quickly snatched it from the boy and returned it to its place. "Its value outsums any amount you can imagine."