outcrafty

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ crafty.

Verb

outcrafty (third-person singular simple present outcrafties, present participle outcraftying, simple past and past participle outcraftied)

1. (transitive) To exceed in craft or cunning; overpower by guile.
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     That drug-damn’d Italy hath out-craftied him,
     And he’s at some hard point.