outreason

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English

Etymology

out- +‎ reason

Verb

outreason (third-person singular simple present outreasons, present participle outreasoning, simple past and past participle outreasoned)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in reasoning; to reason better than.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 outreason”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)