单词 | out-hound |
释义 | † out-houndv. Scottish. Obsolete. transitive. To urge or incite (a person) to violence, or to commit a crime, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > motivate [verb (transitive)] > incite or instigate > to evil out-hound1693 1693 in C. F. Mackintosh Lett. Two Cent. (1890) 127 James Grant..[who] commands the watch..was the man that out hunded [printed ount hunded] the Lochaber men, and sent with them to take up the goods. 1753 Extracts Trial J. Stewart in Scots Mag. May 226/2 That Breck committed the murder..by the counsel, command, or direction of this pannel, or, as our old laws express it, out-hounded by him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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