outcap

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English

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Etymology

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From out- +‎ cap.

Verb

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outcap (third-person singular simple present outcaps, present participle outcapping, simple past and past participle outcapped)

  1. (rare) To cap or top; exceed.
    • 1721, Robert Manning, A Plain and Rational Account of the Catholick Faith, page 111:
      I ſhall only inſtance in the Quakers, who of all People in the World apply themſelves moſt to the Reading of Scriptures: nay there is ſcarce a Quaker Woman, but ſhall outcap the ableſt Divine of any other Religion in Scripture Texts.
    • 1849, William Nelson Hutchinson, “Dog-breaking—the Pocket and the Stud”, in Quarterly Review, volume 84, page 355:
      In rapping out oaths a cad outcaps a Chesterfield; scarcely bearable in a buss, oaths in type are too bad, and at such malice prepense printers' devils recoil.
    • 1893, Albion W. Tourgée, Out of the Sunset Sea, Merrill & Baker, page 282:
      The new myth certainly outcapped the Babeque fable, but why should they follow myths forever?
    • 1910, Joseph Edward Sanderson, The First Century of Methodism in Canada: 1840-1883, W. Briggs, page 97:
      I thought myself pretty tall, but many of the Senecas, Oneidas, and Onondagas far outcapped me.
  2. (nonce word) To cap ("lie") more than.