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outcap en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + cap.

Meanings

1. (rare) To cap or top; exceed.
   • I thought myself pretty tall, but many of the Senecas, Oneidas, and Onondagas far outcapped me. 1910, Joseph Edward Sanderson, The First Century of Methodism in Canada: 1840-1883, W. Briggs, page 97:
   • The new myth certainly outcapped the Babeque fable, but why should they follow myths forever? 1893, Albion W. Tourgée, Out of the Sunset Sea, Merrill & Baker, page 282:
   • 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. 1721, Robert Manning, A Plain and Rational Account of the Catholick Faith, page 111:
   • 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. 1849, William Nelson Hutchinson, “Dog-breaking—the Pocket and the Stud”, in Quarterly Review, volume 84, page 355:
2. (nonce-word) To cap ("lie") more than.
   • A mean remark? Certainly, but I comforted myself by saying, "Everybody does it. Outcapping everyone else is the only way to survive." 1990, Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 49:

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