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outlive, v.|aʊtˈlɪv|
[out- 18, 17.]
1. trans. Of a person: To live longer than (another person); to survive; also, to live longer than (a thing lasts).
1472Rolls of Parlt. VI. 234/2 In cas hereafter it happen you..to outleve our seid Sovereigne Lord. 1560Bible (Genev.) Judg. ii. 7 All the daies of the Elders that outlyued Ioshua. 1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. iv. 341 Asham'd his Country's Freedom to out-live. 1711Addison Spect. No. 72 ⁋11 The Senior Member has out-lived the whole Club twice over. 1880McCarthy Own Times IV. lvii. 253 He had out-lived nearly all his early friends and foes.
b. Of a thing: To endure longer than; to outlast.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. lv, Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme. 1706Estcourt Fair Examp. iv. i. 51 When Guilt outlives the Sence of Shame. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 229 The Taliacotian art does not, however, appear to have long outlived its author in Italy. 1865Lightfoot Gal. (1874) 13 The character of a nation even outlives its language.
2. To live through or beyond (a specified time).
1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. 39 Not one will out-live October. 1726–31Waldron Isle Man (1865) 67 He is sure not to out-live three days. 1867Max Müller Chips (1880) III. 334 The mammoth..did not outlive the age of bronze.
b. To live through or beyond (a certain state or experience); to pass through; to outgrow.
1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 63 How many have out-lived their piety. 1775Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 13 July, They have outlived the age of weakness. 1806Naval Chron. XV. 266 The Montagu having..outlived the hurricane. 1887Lowell Democr. etc. 42 The world has outlived much, and will outlive a great deal more.
†3. intr. To survive. Obs.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. ii. iii. 132 But when ye haue the hony we desire, Let not this Waspe out-liue vs both to sting.
4. trans. To excel in (virtuous) living.
1883Macfadyen in Congreg. Year-bk. 58 Bishop Burnet gave his clergy the..advice that if they wished Dissent to cease, they must out-live, out-labour, out-preach Dissenters.
Hence outˈlived, outˈliving ppl. adjs.; outˈliver, a survivor.
1800Lamb Lett., to Manning 55 The prattle of age, and outlived importance. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Survivant, the outliuer. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 186 The out-liuer becomming a conuert to their religion. 1630Milton Passion 7 In Wintry solstice like the shortn'd light Soon swallow'd up in dark and long out-living night. |