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▪ I. outright, adv. (a.)|aʊtˈraɪt|
[f. out adv. + right.]
1. Of direction in space: Straight out; directly onward; straight ahead. Now rare.
13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 1054 A reuer of þe trone þer ran out-ryȝte. 1564P. Moore Hope Health ii. ix. 38 Sothern⁓woode..is good for them yt can not breath, but when they hold their necke outright. 1601Holland Pliny I. 167 The same writer maketh mention of one that could see and discerne out-right 135 miles. 1685Gracian's Courtiers Orac. 17 It is easie to shoot a Fowl that flies out-right, but not a Bird which is irregular in its flight. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. viii, I never travell'd in this journey above two Miles outright in a Day, or thereabouts. 1849Whately Let. in Life (1866) II. 145 You get a brighter view of a comet, or some other of the heavenly bodies, when you are looking not outright at it, but at some other star near it.
†b. Without a break, straight away; ‘on end’, consecutively, continuously. Obs.
1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 464 Nicias..thus travelling eight days journey out-right together. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 253 So would they ride them an hundred and fifty miles out right.
†2. Of time: Straight, straightway; forthwith, immediately, without delay. Obs.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 457/16 Seint leonard nolde it graunti nouȝht: ake outriȝht it gan for-sake. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. I. 37/2 Such as he found abroad in the countrie he slue out right on euerie side. 1611Heywood Gold. Age iv. Wks. 1874 III. 69 If you but offer't, I shall cry out right. 1714Fr. Bk. of Rates 294 They shall be sent out of the Kingdom outright without delay. (To slay outright appears to have passed from this sense to the next.)
3. So that the act is finished at once; altogether, entirely; to kill outright, i.e. so that the victim dies on the spot; to sell outright or purchase outright, i.e. so that the thing disposed of becomes at once the full property of the buyer.
1603Drayton Bar. Wars iii. lxxvi, Where slaine out-right, I now the same behold. 1623Ld. Carew in Lismore Papers (1888) Ser. ii. III. 61 Lett me knowe..whether I should sett it for a yearely rent, or sell it out righte. 1656H. Phillips Purch. Patt. (1676) 19 What may be the value of them to buy them out right? 1772Phil. Trans. LXII. 452 note, A man..was killed outright by one blow of a poker. 1775Sheridan Duenna ii. ii, Touch her lips, and she swoons outright. 1884Manch. Exam. 21 Mar. 5/1 The majority of those who fell were not killed outright by the bullet which sent them to the ground. 1885Law Times LXXVIII. 458/1 The interests might have been disposed of outright.
4. To the full extent, fully out, completely, entirely, quite; without reservation or limitation; openly, without reserve of manner or expression.
13..Guy Warw. (E.E.T.S. 1887) 440 And þei he be þe fende out-riȝt Y schal for þe take þe fiȝt. 1532More Confut. Tindale i. Wks. 483/1 Within a whyle after..the frere made the foole madde outright. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, i. ii. 41 Nay Elinor, then must I chide outright. a1625Beaum. & Fl. Honest Man's Fort. v. i, I simper'd sometime,..But never laugh'd outright. a1719Addison (J.), He neigh'd outright, and all the steed exprest. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 404 Some bold man who..will say outright what is best for the city. 1895T. Hardy Tess Pref., In planning the stories the idea was that large towns..should be named outright.
B. adj.
1. Directed or going straight on. rare.
1611Cotgr., Dressiere, a straight or outright path, or tract. Ibid. s.v. Balancer, Without any certain, or outright course in his flight. 1878Stevenson Inland Voy. 192 When the river now..only glided seaward with an even, outright, but imperceptible speed.
2. Direct; downright; thorough, out-and-out.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 404/2 A mouthe..playeth sometime y⊇ frere, sometime y⊇ foxe, sometime the foole, & sometime the outeright ribauld. 1851H. W. Beecher Lect. Yng. Men iv. 98 The young are seldom tempted to outright wickedness. 1856J. W. Kaye Life Sir J. Malcolm I. vii. 98 Malcolm did everything in a hearty outright manner.
3. Complete, entire, total.
Mod. Newspaper, He mentioned the probable outright cost of such an undertaking.
Hence † outˈrightly adv. Obs. = A. 3.
1642J. Eaton Honey-c. Free Justif. 14 Adjudged unto him that did outrightly kill a man.
▪ II. ˈoutright, v. U.S. Sports slang.
[f. outright adv. (a.).]
trans. To give (a baseball player) a free transfer.
1975Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer 6 Apr. 9-C/1 It was very difficult when Joe was outrighted to Oklahoma City on Saturday. 1975New Yorker 23 June 46/1 The Pirates had finally released him late in March (‘outrighted’ him, in baseball parlance). |