outcrafty

English edit

Etymology edit

From out- +‎ crafty.

Verb edit

outcrafty (third-person singular simple present outcrafties, present participle outcraftying, simple past and past participle outcraftied)

(transitive) To exceed in craft or cunning; overpower by guile.
- 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 III, scene iv]:
  That drug-damn’d Italy hath out-craftied him,
  And he’s at some hard point.