outrive
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outrive (third-person singular simple present outrives, present participle outriving, simple past outrove, past participle outriven)
- (obsolete) To rive; to sever.
- 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Third Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 27, page 44:
- The cou’nants be (he said) that thou vnfold / This wretched boſome, and my hart out riue, [...]
- 1599, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum. The three laſt Bookes. Of byting Satyres., Lib. 4, Sat. 1,, page 3, line 11:
- [...] Should all in rage the Curſe-beat Page out-riue, [...]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outrive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)