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outlaugh, v.|aʊtˈlɑːf, -æ-|
[out- 18, 18 c, 14.]
†1. trans. To laugh down, deride, ridicule. Obs.
1477Norton Ord. Alch. Proem in Ashm. (1652) 7 And Common workemen will not be out-lafte. 1605Camden Rem. (1637) 362 The same Lucian bringeth in Diogenes laughing and outlaughing King Mausolus for that hee was so pittifully pressed and crushed with an huge heape of stones under his stately monument Mausoleum. a1790Franklin (Webster, 1864), His apprehensions of being out⁓laughed will force him to continue in a restless obscurity.
2. To surpass or outdo in laughing.
1672Dryden Arviragus & Phil. Prol. 17 Each lady striving to out-laugh the rest; To make it seem they understood the jest. 1908Swinburne Duke of Gandia i. 32 Her..Whose eyes outlaugh the splendour of the sea.
3. intr. To laugh aloud. (Properly two words.)
1844Mrs. Browning Brown Rosary iii. ix, Then out⁓laughed the bridegroom, and outlaughed withal Both maidens and youths by the old chapel-wall. |