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outbreathe, v.|aʊtˈbriːð|
[out- 14, 15.]
1. trans. To breathe out; † to expire; to exhale; to emit as breath. Now poet.
1559Mirr. Mag. Induct. (1563) R ij, Outbrething nought but discord euery where. 1572J. Jones Bathes Buckstone 9 Not easely to be outbreathed by vapour. 1658A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. i. iv. 17 This young man out-breathed his last within few houres after. 1860F. W. Faber Hymn, Eternal Spirit xii, Thou art an unborn Breath outbreathed On angels and on men. 1866Conington tr. Virg. æneid viii. 266 Cacus in his robber-lair Outbreathing smoke and flame.
2. intr. or absol.
a1625Fletcher Love's Pilgr. i. i, No smoak nor steam, out-breathing from the kitchen. a1851Moir Lament of Selim i, The flowers outbreathe beneath my feet.
So ˈoutbreathed |-briːðd|, ppl. a.1, breathed out.
a1596Spenser (J.), That sign of last outbreathed life did seem. 1771Mackenzie Man Feel. xxviii. (1803) 48 Her look had the horrid calmness of out-breathed despair. 1914R. M. Jones Spiritual Reformers 16th & 17th Cent. 177 This entire manifested or out-breathed universe is, he says, the expression of the divine desire for holy sport and play. |