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out-ˈhector, v.
[out- 18, 18 c.]
trans. To outdo in hectoring; to overcome by bluster and swagger; to bully, intimidate.
1678Butler Hud. iii. iii. Lady's Answer 374 Because your selves are terrify'ed..Believe we have as little Wit To be Out hector'd, and Submit. 1683Pettus Fleta Min. i. Ded., That as you never were out-Hector'd by Affronts or Resistences, so you were never out-done by Civilities. a1854H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets ix. (1857) 311 The great struggle of men seemed to be to out-hector each other. |