outpeer
English
Etymology
Verb
outpeer (third-person singular simple present outpeers, present participle outpeering, simple past and past participle outpeered)
- (archaic, transitive) To excel or surpass.
- 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 III, scene vi]:
- Which their own conscience sealed them, laying by
That nothing gift of differing multitudes,
Could not outpeer these twain
References
- “outpeer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.