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▪ I. outbreak, n.|ˈaʊtbreɪk|
[out- 7.]
1. A breaking out; an eruption; an outburst of feeling or passion, of hostilities, of disease, of volcanic energy, etc.
1602Shakes. Ham. ii. i. 33 The flash and out-breake of a fiery minde. 1818Lady Morgan Autobiog. 23 It is the spontaneous outbreak of a good and kind heart. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Philos. 348 The first out-break of modern science. 1848Kingsley Saint's Trag. iii. i. 74, I had expected some such passionate outbreak. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 419 An outbreak of patriotic and religious enthusiasm. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 199 In some case volcanic outbreaks take place actually beneath the sea. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 714 Two diphtheritic outbreaks. 1885L'pool Daily Post 11 Apr. 4/7 Since the outbreak of the Crimean War.
2. Geol. The emergence of a rock at the surface; the outcrop of a stratum; the eruption of an intrusive igneous rock.
1806Martin in Phil. Trans. XCVI. 345 If the whole..was an even plain, the border or outbreak of each stratum would appear regular and true. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2) s.v., When a vein of coal, &c. appears on the surface, it is called an out-breck, the same as a crop-out. 1873Tristram Moab iv. 65 In the neighbourhood of the basaltic outbreaks which frequently disturb the stratification.
3. A breach of the peace; a public display of opposition to established authority; an insurrection.
1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. viii. II. 440 If the misgovernment of James were suffered to continue, it must produce..a popular outbreak. 1851Gallenga Italy 71 Revolutionary outbreaks in Sicily. 1858Buckle Civiliz. (1873) II. viii. 593 Outbreaks, no doubt, there have been and will be; but they are bursts of lawlessness rather than of liberty.
▪ II. outbreak, v.|ˌaʊtˈbreɪk|
[out- 14.]
intr. To break out. (In OE. and ME. properly two words; now only poetic.)
c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xxxi. 866 Swa þæt him forburnon on þam bæce his reaf and he for ðam bryne ut bræcan ne mihte. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6567 Baldeliche he spac & sturneliche to þis water, þo it alles out brac. c1400Ywaine & Gaw. 3243 Now es the lioun out broken. c1450Lonelich Grail xxvi. 112 And longe it was Er..Ony word Eiþer myhte Owt Breke. 1604Hieron Wks. I. 574 And now and then outbrake the light. 1870Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 95 A frightful clamour from the wall outbroke.
b. To burst into flower.
1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 193 Round Venus' feet Outbroke the changing spring-flowers sweet. |