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▪ I. † ˈoutface, n. Obs.
Also 6 vtface.
[out- 3.]
The outer or external face; outside; surface.
1570Dee Math. Pref. D j b, The vtface or Superficies of the earth. 1635Swan Spec. M. vi. §2 (1643) 186 The out⁓face of the ground could not be obscured. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Building, That no Door-Frame, or Window-Frame of Wood, in London and Westminster..shall be set nearer to the Outface of the Wall than four Inches.
▪ II. outˈface, v.
[out- 18 b, c.]
1. trans. To outdo or overcome in facing or confronting; to look (a person) out of countenance; to face or stare down; hence, to put out of countenance, put to shame or to silence, generally; esp. by boldness, assurance, impudence, or arrogance.
to outface with a card of ten: see card n.2 2 a, and cf. face v. 3 b.
a1529Skelton Bouge of Court 315 Firste pycke a quarell and fall out with him then And soo outface hym with a carde of ten. 1540Coverdale Fruitf. Less. v. Wks. (Parker Soc.) I. 398 To take too much upon us, that with bragging or arrogancy we would out-face the weak. 1584Fenner Def. Ministers (1587) 43 To rayse tumultes, and by number to out-face our Superiours. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. x. 49 Oppose thy stedfast gazing eyes to mine, See if thou canst out-face me with thy lookes. 1596― Merch. V. iv. ii. 17 We shal haue old swearing That they did giue the rings away to men; But weele out-face them, and out⁓sweare them to. 1615Heywood Foure Prentises i. xiv. Wks. 1874 II. 196 Think'st thou, thou canst outface me? proud man, no. 1658A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. v. 363 These impudent wenches would have outfaced me therein. 1756Wesley Wks. (1872) XIII. 215 They will outface and out⁓lung you. 1882J. Parker Apost. Life I. 103 They will outface the two unlearned and ignorant men.
fig.1649N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. lxvi. (1739) 140 In this course they continued till they had out-faced shame itself. 1854Ruskin Two Paths i. §9, I have put this painful question before you, only that we may face it thoroughly, and, as I hope, out-face it. 1898Pall Mall G. 2 Nov. 3/2 It has happened to me to find myself before a common silk that outfaced all the reds of nature.
†b. To force from by confronting. Obs.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 283 Then did we too, set on you foure, and with a word, outfac'd you from your prize.
2. To face boldly or defiantly, to confront fearlessly or impudently; to brave, defy.
1574tr. Marlorat's Apocalips 116 This so great assurednesse whereby a man may be bold to outface the diuell, sinne, death, and hell gates. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1148/2 If you meet your brother in the street, shun him not, but outface him. 1605Shakes. Lear ii. iii. 11 Ile..with presented nakednesse out-face The Windes, and persecutions of the skie. 1679Goodman Penit. Pardoned ii. iii. (1713) 206 The Pharisee stood upon his own justification, and with a brazen impudence outfaces heaven. 1870Lowell Study Wind. (1886) 9 They..outface you with an eye that challenges inquiry.
fig.1827Southey in Q. Rev. XXXVI. 337 Professors of holiness, and professors of patriotism, when they are thoroughly versed in their trade, can outface infamy.
†3. To contradict (any one) to his face; to controvert or deny (a statement, etc.) boldly or impudently; to give the lie to boldly or defiantly.
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cxxxix. xi, This cursed brood..Would with proud lies thy truth outface. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1594) 359 For a yea or a naie, they foorthwith thinke that the lie is given them, and that they are outfaced. 1643Milton Divorce viii. Wks. (1851) 43 Which..if we shall still avouch to be a command, he palpably denying it, this is not to expound S. Paul, but to outface him. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. ix. 28 Who can outface so Ancient and Loud Tradition?
†b. To maintain boldly or impudently to the face of (a person), that, etc. Obs.
1631Lynde Case for Spectacles (1638) 58 They have out⁓faced the world in their Preface, that their Translation is so exact and precise. 1654Vilvain Theol. Treat. Suppl. 240 The ægyptian Sorcerers..outfaced the King, that they were Serpents which looked like Rods. 1678Dryden Kind Keeper iv. i, He made me keep Lent last Year till Whitson⁓tide, and out-fac'd me with Oaths, it was but Easter.
†4. To maintain (something false or shameful) with boldness or effrontery; to brazen out. Obs.
1581W. Fulke in Confer. ii. (1584) K iij b, I see you would outface the matter. 1649Milton Eikon. xxi, The Damsell,..at sight of her own letter, was soon blank, and more ingenuous than to stand outfacing. 1679Bedloe Popish Plot Ep. A ij, I scarce know which is greatest, Their Impudence in committing horrid Villanies, or in out-facing them, when they are done. 1692R. L'Estrange Josephus, Wars of Jews i. xvii. (1733) 593 Why cannot you give over this Way of shuffling and outfacing things, and rather make a frank Confession?
Hence outˈfaced ppl. a.; outˈfacer, one who outfaces; outˈfacing ppl. a. and vbl. n.
1547–64Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) 126 Defended from..lyers, from out-facers, shamelesse persons, & theeues. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. i. iii, I..pierc't the starre, With an outfacing eye. 1618Bp. Hall Contempl., O.T. xiii. i, Conviction of a denied and outfaced disobedience. 1632Brome North. Lass i. v. Wks. 1873 III. 11, I know he is a Bawd by his out-facing. 1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 25 (1713) I. 164 Notwithstanding all their Impudent out-facings of the Matter, I doubt not but a horrid Conspiracy will yet..be made out. |