outsetting

English

Verb

outsetting

1. present participle and gerund of outset

Noun

outsetting (plural outsettings)

1. Start, originally of a journey; outset, beginning. [from 17th c.]
   • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, pages 67–68:

     He [...] valued himſelf, that he only wanted Cæſar's out-ſetting, to make a figure among his contemporaries.

   • 1922, Francis Lynde, Pirates' Hope, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 32:

     As it appeared, there was to be no loss of time in the outsetting.

Anagrams

• setting out, testing out