outray

English

Etymology

out- +‎ ray

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʊtˈɹeɪ/

Verb

outray (third-person singular simple present outrays, present participle outraying, simple past and past participle outrayed)

1. (obsolete) To spread out in array.
   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volumes (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     And now they outray to your fleet.

     The spelling has been modernized.

2. (obsolete) To outshine.
   • c. 1505, John Skelton, Phyllyp Sparowe; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 74, lines 85–88:

     Cerberus doth barke,
     Whom Theseus dyd affraye,
     Whom Hercules dyd outraye,
     As famous poetes say; […]

References

“outray”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Touray, yaourt