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ˈoutward-ˈbound, a. (n.)
[f. outward adv. + bound ppl. a.1]
1. a. Directing the course outward, esp. going from a home port to a foreign one: of a ship, vehicle, or person; transf. of a voyage. Also absol. as n.
1602[see homeward-bound]. 1668Clarendon Vind. Tracts (1727) 7 Six or seven merchant ships, whereof some were outward-bound with merchandize. 1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3811/2 Our outward-bound Brasil Fleet will sail in few days. 1755N. Magens Insurances II. 238 If an Accident happen to Ship or Cargo on the outwardbound Voyage. 1777P. Thicknesse Year's Journey II. xlvi. 110 My entertainment at this house, outward-bound, was half a second-hand roasted turkey. 1832Chambers's Edin. Jrnl. I. 86/3 He would find himself on the top of one of the outward-bound coaches of the metropolis. 1838W. Ellis Madagascar iii. (1858) 63 Sighted by outward-bound ships to India. 1887Pall Mall G. 6 July 5/1 There is no precaution taken against outward-bounds meeting homeward-bounds?
b. fig. Departing this life, dying.
1809Malkin Gil Blas ii. v. ⁋6 The mistress joined the outward-bound colony of my patients. 1890Hall Caine Bondman x, He's really past help. He's outward bound, poor chap.
c. fig. Bent on wandering or straying.
1742Young Nt. Th. v. 149 Thought outward-bound..flies off In fume and dissipation. 1860J. W. Warter Sea-board II. 128 An outward-bound youth, and difficult to handle by reason of his carelessness.
2. (With capital initials.) The name of a sea school founded by Kurt Hahn at Aberdovey in 1941, on the basis of which an Outward Bound Trust was formed in 1946 with the aim of establishing further residential schools for the training of boys and girls in mountaineering as well as naval and other outdoor activities. Also transf. Hence Outward-Bound course, scheme, school, etc. (see quots.).
1943Times 28 June 2/4 Dr G. M. Trevelyan..at Aberdovey on Saturday gave the name of Garibaldi to a sea-going ketch presented by the partners of Alfred Holt and Co., shipowners, to the Outward Bound Sea School. 1947Times 23 Sept. 2/5 To-day the experiment begun in war-time is firmly established as a permanent undertaking operated by the Outward Bound Trust. 1950Times Educ. Suppl. 16 June 474/1 Variety is the spice of the Outward Bound life. 1957K. Hahn in D. James Outward Bound 10 In July 1941..Lawrence Holt, the shipowner..secured the financial support of his firm, the Blue Funnel Line, for the foundation of the first Short-Term School at Aberdovey. The name Outward Bound Sea School was his invention. 1958Listener 12 June 976/1 Sir Richard Livingstone and ‘Outward Bound’ enthusiasts both saw in the training of character a panacea for a world adrift. 1961Visct. Montgomery Path to Leadership xi. 173 In my opinion the best character training given to boys in Britain is that provided by the Outward Bound Trust, through their sea and mountain schools... Outward Bound can take only some 4,000 boys a year. 1965M. Morse Unattached v. 159 He had been sent on the Outward Bound course by his firm. 1973C. Bonington Next Horizon xiv. 213 Sebastian in the mist, looking like a bedraggled outward-bound schoolboy in the mists of Wales or the Lakes. 1977P. Theroux Consul's File 42 He was the local magistrate. An Outward Bound type..dead keen to go camping. |