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▪ I. † outas, outes, n. Obs.
Forms: 3 uthes, -heis, -hest, 4 outheys, 5 out(e)hees, outehese, 5–6 outas, 5–7 outes, 6 owtis, 7 outis.
[Early ME. ūthēs, whence later outhees, -hese, and (with shortening of unstressed second element) outes, outis, outas; also, in 13th c., ūthest. App. representing an OE. *út-hǽs, f. út out + hǽs command, bidding, *calling upon (any one) by name (from hátan to call by name, call upon), which also had in 13th c. the two forms hēs, hest: see hest n.
Common in 13th c. in legal documents in the Latin forms uthesium, huthesium, hutesium, and later huesium. These have been sometimes thought to be the source of the ME. word, and to be themselves of OF. origin, derived from huer, huier, to cry, hu, huee cry (hu e cri, hue and cry), which suits the sense perfectly. But hutesium cannot be etymologically accounted for from this source, nor is the word known in any form, Latin or vernacular, outside England. On the other hand, ūthēsium as a latinization of ME. ūthēs is quite in order. It is very likely, however, that hutesium and (still more) huesium are Norman Fr. alterations, due to association with hutz, hu, huée. Utheis, utheys are also most easily explained as Anglo-Norman formations from uthesium. As to the sense, ūthēs could hardly mean ‘outcry’, but might well be the ‘calling upon’ people to the pursuit of a thief or other ill-doer, which is the sense in the oldest and other of the quots. (Compare the expressions levare clamorem, levare huthesium, lever le hu.)]
An outcry, raised against a thief or the like, hue and cry; also, outcry generally, clamour.
1202in Maitland Sel. Pleas Crown No. 25 Ipse exivit et levavit uthes et clamorem unde vicini ejus et villata..venerunt. Ibid. No. 36 Quod francum plegium Theobaldi Hautein levavit clamorem et huthes super predictum Robertum. 1203Ibid. No. 91 Quod ipse Henricus et servientes sui levaverunt clamorem et{ddd}utheis patrie, et insecuti sunt eum. 1207Ibid. No. 101 Ad levandum uthes et sequendum malefactores. a1250Owl & Night. 1683 Schille ich an uthest [v.r. utest] up ow grede. Ibid. 1698 Ar ich uthest [v.r. utheste] uppon ow grede. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 339 His hede of snyten & born to London brigge fulle hie with outheys. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1154 Armed compleint out hees [v.rr. outehees, outes] and fiers outrage. 1451Paston Lett. I. 186 That an outas and clamour be made upon the Lord Scalez. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccvi. 187 A redy whan ony oute hese or crye were made. 1566Drant tr. Horace, Sat. A iv, At whose scarcehead and covetyce the worlde did outas make. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 63 The Tipstaves..commyng downe with an outas agaynst him. 1599Hakluyt Voy. I. 284 The rest of the company answere him with this Owtis, Igha, Igha, Igha. 1662W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. verse 17. i. vii. §2 (1669) 264/2 You may hear a greater noise and outis of joy in the Thiefs House than the honest Husbandmans.
Hence † ˈoutas v. intr., to cry or shout out.
1547Bale Later Exam. Anne Askewe Concl. I iv, Their wyse preachers outasynge the same at Paules crosse.
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