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outˈdate, v.
[out- 26.]
trans. To put out of date, make (a thing) out of date or obsolete.
a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Jas. V Wks. (1711) 110 Imagining to himself an over-sight and preterition, [he] outdateth, by his stay, his protection. a1716Bp. O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. 178 The ceremonial Law..expired and was outdated, when the Things typified and signified thereby were accomplished. 1868Whittier Among the Hills 92 As if the Sermon on the Mount had been Outdated like a last year's almanac.
Hence outˈdated ppl. a., put or become out of date; grown obsolete; antiquated; outˈdatedness.
1616Manifest. Abp. Spalato's Motives App. iii. 6 Out⁓dated Kalendars of Gallo-Belgicus. 1698Norris Pract. Disc. (1707) IV. 13 None of these talk of Religion; that's a stale, out-dated, antiquated, superannuated Subject. 1909Belloc Marie Antoinette vi. 106 His outworn, out-dated ambition. 1937‘C. Caudwell’ Illusion & Reality vi. 115 The development of capitalist production remorselessly turns the craftsman into a labourer... Eventually, employed as a factory hand, he may still cherish his outdated skill by making models. 196020th Cent. Mar. 259 By his lofty and elusive outdatedness, he has outwitted the practically minded, the men of action and the men of defeat. 1967Karch & Buber Offset Processes v. 187 Causes of fog: 1. Poor storage of film. 2. Outdated film. 1976R. Lewis Witness my Death i. 35 For you, it's a matter of protecting a professional reputation, going by an out-dated rulebook drawn up by old men. |