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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

outlustre en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + lustre.

Meanings

  1. (poetic, transitive) To surpass in brightness or lustre; to outshine.
    • Her plumage outlustred the pride o' the spring. a. 1796, Robert Burns, The Heather was Blooming:
    • So she has dreams, and in her dreams, / Joy to outlustre joy by day[…] 1869, John Edward Howell, Poems: Volume 1, page 123:
    • that diamond of yours outlustres many 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 I, scene v]:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
outlustres Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outlustring Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outlustred Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outlustred Tense=Past lexicographic