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▪ I. ˈoutˌsetting, vbl. n.
[out- 9.]
1. The setting out or starting upon a journey, course of action, undertaking, etc.; a start.
1676W. Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog ix. (1848) 141 Mr. Livingstone, before their outsetting, often said [etc.]. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) III. ii. 19 Who might, from such an outsetting, begin the world..with some hope of success. 1824A. Grant in Mem. (1844) III. 62, I shall leave your son to tell of our outsetting. 1827Carlyle Germ. Rom. I. 292 They used to look at one another, at outsetting, or when cross-ways met, with an air of sadness. 1903W. B. Yeats In Seven Woods 42 It's time to build up Emain that was burned At the outsetting of these wars. 1909Tablet 17 Apr. 606/1 The start was made from Blois a few days later, as strange an outsetting as ever was made by a fighting army.
†2. The action of fitting out; provision for a journey, enterprise, etc. Obs.
1561Rental of Dunkeld (Clarendon Hist. Soc. 1883) 13 Thay grantit to give hir Grace, for the outsetting of hir Majesties honest effairis, the fourt pairt of thair levingis for ane ȝeir allanerlie. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 241 This taxt was raisit for the out⁓setting of the ambassadour to Ingland.
3. What is outside the self. rare.
1880G. M. Hopkins Sermons & Devotional Writings (1959) 127 This applies to the universal mind or being too; it will have its inset and its outsetting; only that the out⁓setting includes all things, with all of which it is in some way..identified.
▪ II. ˈoutˌsetting, ppl. a.
[out- 10.]
†1. That lives or lies in the open or outside an enclosure, park, etc.: cf. outlying 1. Obs.
1658W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. verse 15. xv. §4 (1669) 164/2 The out-setting Deer is observ'd to be lean..because alwayes in fear. 1662Ibid. iii. (1669) 318/1 These like the out⁓setting deer are shot, while they within the Pale are safe.
2. That sets or flows steadily outward.
1763W. Roberts Nat. Hist. Florida 19 The course of this outsetting current. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. viii. (ed. 2) 293 If there be a strong ‘outsetting’ tide,..then get on your back and float till help comes. |