outray
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outray (third-person singular simple present outrays, present participle outraying, simple past and past participle outrayed)
- (obsolete) To spread out in array.
- [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC:
- And now they outray to your fleet.
- (obsolete) To outshine.
- c. 1505, John Skelton, Phyllyp Sparowe; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 74, lines 85–88:
- Cerberus doth barke,
Whom Theseus dyd affraye,
Whom Hercules dyd outraye,
As famous poetes say; […]
References[edit]
“outray”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.