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: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson;  […], →OCLC:

     He […] valued himself, that he only wanted Caesar'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