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out-ˈask, v.
[out- 15 b, 17.]
1. trans. To ‘ask’ the banns of marriage of (a couple) in church for the last time. dial.
1719in Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Col. Ch. I. 223 The usual way is for them to publish the Banes and give the person out-asked a certificat of it to the minister. 1767Ann. Reg. 63/2 About seven months ago the parties were out-asked (as it is called) at the above church. 1842Barham Ingol. Leg., Blasphemer's Warn. (1882) 269 The parties had even been ‘out-ask'd’ in Church. 1889Played On 17 The couple whose banns were ‘out-asked’, as they call it, this morning.
†2. To ask in excess of. Obs.
1642T. Goodwin Christ set forth 161 He can never out⁓aske the merit of this his service. |