Meaning of outgo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To go further than (someone or something); to exceed, to go beyond, to surpass.
   archaic, transitive
2. To experience, go through, or undergo (something).
   obsolete, transitive
3. To travel faster than (someone or something); to outstrip, to overtake.
   obsolete, transitive
4. To go out, to set forth, to set out.
   intransitive, regional
5. To go too far; to overextend or overreach.
   intransitive, obsolete

Examples

“So then it will alwayes bee found trew, that God outgoeth all our prayers, and all our wiſhes.”

“Shepheards delights he dooth them all forſweare, / Hys pleaſaunt Pipe, whych made vs meriment, / He wylfully hath broke, and doth forbeare / His wonted ſongs, wherein he all outwent.”

“But when they came, where thou thy ſkill didſt ſhowe, / They drewe abacke, as halfe with ſhame confound, / Shepheard to ſee, them in theyr art outgoe.”

“[T]hy head ſhall ouerlooke the reſt, / As much as thou in rage out vvent'ſt the reſt.”

“Valor hath his limites, as other vertues have: vvhich if a man out-go, hee ſhall finde himſelfe in the traine of vice: […]”

“In vvorth and excellence he ſhall out-go them, / Yet being above them, he ſhall be belovv them; […]”

“Ah! vvas it not enough that thou / By thy eternall glorie didſt outgo me?”

“I fear me, thou out-go'ſt the Prophet's Order; / And bring's his venerable Name, to ſhelter / A Rudeneſs ill becoming thee to uſe, / Or me to ſuffer.”

“As the infamy of the conduct of Rhode Island outgoes all precedent, so the influence of her counsels can be of no prejudice.”

“Danger, long travel, want, or woe, / Soon change the form that best we know— / For deadly fear can time outgo, / And blaunch at once the hair; […]”

“When much intercourse with a friend has supplied us with a standard of excellence, and has increased our respect for the resources of God who thus sends a real person to outgo our ideal; […] —it is a sign to us that his office is closing, and he is commonly withdrawn from our sight in a short time.”

“Ah, Pistoia! Pistoia! why dost thou not decree to burn thyself outright, that thou mayest endure no longer, since thou outgoest thy seed in evil-doing?”

“Ye do outgo / Mad Korah. Boy, this is the Dale / Of Doom, God's last assizes; so, / Curb thee; even if sharp grief assail, / Respect these precincts lest thou know / An ill.”

“As Professor [John] Fiske outgoes [William] Maginn, Professor [John Churton] Collins outgoes Fiske. He ascribes to [William] Shakespeare, in effect, a greater facility in Latin than is possessed by many professional scholars, because much of Latin is for any man far harder, more elliptic, more obscure than is any modern French for a cultivated modern Englishman.”

“So ſince the vvinged God his planet cleare, / began in me to moue, one yeare is ſpent: / the vvhich doth longer vnto me appeare, / then al thoſe fourty vvhich my life outvvent.”

“So trauelling, he chaunſt far off to heed, / A Damzell, flying on a palfrey faſt / Before tvvo Knights, […] Yet fled ſhe faſt, and both them farre outvvent, / Carried vvith vvings of feare, like fovvle aghaſt, / VVith locks all looſe, and rayment all to rent; […]”

“VVhat, ſhall vve talk further vvith him? or out-go him at preſent? and ſo leave him to think of vvhat he hath heard already; and then ſtop again for him aftervvards, and ſee if by degrees vve can do any good of him?”

“Then ſaid By-ends, […] I muſt do as I did before you overtook me, even go by my ſelf, untill ſome overtake me that vvill be glad of my Company. Then Chriſtian and Hopeful outvvent him, and vvent till they came at a delicate Plain, called Eaſe, vvhere they vvent vvith much content; but that plain vvas but narrovv, ſo they vvere quickly got over it.”

“For as much as Time, is alvvaies Scattered and Stretched out in Length, and Diſtance, one moment follovving after another; but Eternity remaineth in the ſame, vvithout any Flux, and yet nevertheleſs outgoeth Time, and tranſcendeth the Flux thereof, though ſeeming to be ſtretched and ſpun out more into Length.”

“The tvvo Travellers ſet out together, one on horeſback, the other on foot: Novv as it generally happens that he on horſeback out-goes him on foot, the Cuſtom is, that vvhen he arrives at the Diſtance agreed on, he is to diſmount, tie the Horſe to ſome Gate, Tree, Poſt, or other thing, and then proceed on foot; vvhen the other comes up to the Horſe, he unties him, mounts and gallops on, […]”

“Ever he gazed earnestly on the main battle of the Romans, and what they were doing, and presently it became clear to him that they would outgo him and come to the ford, and then he wotted well that they would set on him just when their light-armed were on his flank and his rearward, and then it would go hard but they would break their array and all would be lost: […]”

“I ſawe a ſhole of ſhepheardes outgoe, / With ſinging, and ſhouting, and iolly chere: […]”

“And in the middle sea they chanced to meet; / Up goes the trump; with shots and shouts they greet, / And hasten them to set on with the sun; / With grisly sound outgoeth the great gun, […]”

“There is a God, the One only Creator, / The All-Animator; / From Him the light of life ever outgoeth,— / Life's river floweth: […]”

“But John / (Our Friend) Molleſſon, / Thought us to have out-gone / VVith a quaint Invention.”

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