out-topt
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]out-topt
- Obsolete form of out-topped.
- 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 161:
- Where a Man happened to be eminent for Power, for Virtue, for Riches, or for Credit, he became sole Magistrate, and the State assumed a monarchical Form; if many of pretty equal Eminence out-topt all the rest, they were jointly elected, and this Election produced an Aristocracy; those, between whose Fortune or Talents there happened to be no such Disproportion, and who had deviated loss from the State of Nature, retained in common the supreme Administration, and formed a Democracy.