outstand
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English outstanden, utstanden, equivalent to out- + stand. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uutstounde (“to bear, tolerate”), Dutch uitstaan (“to abide, suffer, dree”), German ausstehen (“to stand, endure, abide”), Swedish utstå (“to suffer, endure, pass through”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ænd
Verb
[edit]outstand (third-person singular simple present outstands, present participle outstanding, simple past and past participle outstood)
- (transitive, archaic) To resist effectually; withstand; sustain without yielding.
- 1658, John Spencer, Thomas Fuller, “CCCXXVI.—A sinful man is a senseless man.”, in ΚΑΙΝΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΛΑΙΑ[:] Things New and Old; or A Storehouse of Similes, Sentences, Allegories, Apophthegms, Apologues, Adages, Divine, Moral, Political, &c., […] , page 84:
- Like Solomon's fool, he outstands all reproof.
- 1861 January, Samuel Joseph Mackie, “The Evidences of the Geological Age and Human Manufacture of the Fossil Flint Implements”, in Samuel Joseph Mackie, editor, The Geologist:
- [T]he Elephas primigenius [woolly mammoth] and some of its associates which were able to outstand the inclemency of that severe period, wandered back over their ancient territory, […]
- (transitive) To surpass in standing; stand or remain beyond; outstay.
- 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 I, scene vi]:
- I have outstood my time, which is material / To the tender of our present.
- 1841 December, J. M. H., “Doctrinal Views Often Determined by Moral Condition”, in The Christian Observer, London: J. Hatchard and Son:
- This difficulty […] does not arise from, nor is it peculiar to, revealed religion. It is a difficulty which outstands all systems; […]
- (intransitive) To project outward from the main body; stand out prominently; be prominent.
- 1971 August 17, Charles L. Welton, “Releasable Mooring Rope”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume 889, number 3:
- A lever connected to the cam outstands from the throat block, […]
- (intransitive, nautical, archaic) To stand out to sea.
- (intransitive, archaic) To remain over; remain untouched, unimpaired, unsettled, uncollected, unpaid, or otherwise undetermined.
- 1883, Thomas J. Knight, “Testimony of Thomas J. Knight”, in Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the Twenty-Fifth Session of the Legislature of the State of California, volume III, page 77:
- The Judge gave a judgment against the whole boat's crew, I being one of the men, for $30,000. Of course, we did not feel like paying it. I did not; it was none of my fault, but I happened to belong to the same boat, and it outstands there now.
Synonyms
[edit]- (to be prominent): See also Thesaurus:stand out
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “outstand”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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