† out-hectorv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To outdo in hectoring; to overcome by bluster; to bully, intimidate.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being intimidating > intimidate or bully [verb (transitive)]
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to push (someone) around1900
to put the frighteners in, on1958
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > utter with bluster or bravado [verb (transitive)] > outdo in or overcome by blustering
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten (evil, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > restrain or force by threatening > bully > get the better of by
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1672 M. Atkins Cataplus 83 So Brutus Tarquin did out-hector That he himself might be Protectour.
1683 J. Pettus Fleta Minor To R. Manlove sig. Cv That as you never were out-Hector'd by Affronts or Resistences, so you were never out-done by Civilities.
1773 W. Kenrick Duellist iv. ii. 62 Achilles, you know, who out-hectored Hector, was glad to conceal himself under one of his mother's maids short petticoats.
a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) ix. 311 The great struggle of men seemed to be to out-hector each other.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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