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outrive en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + rive.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To rive, sever or clear
   • outriveing of bent land 1677, Corshill Baron Court Book.:
   • The cou’nants be (he said) that thou vnfold / This wretched boſome, and my hart out riue, [...] 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:
   • [...] Should all in rage the Curſe-beat Page out-riue, [...] 1599, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum. The three laſt Bookes. Of byting Satyres., Lib. 4, Sat. 1,, page 3, line 11:

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