单词 | out-tell |
释义 | out-tellv. Now poetic and archaic. 1. transitive. To declare (a thing) aloud; to tell about. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > make known shirec897 i-kenc1000 cryc1300 declarec1340 out-tella1382 commona1387 ascryc1400 commune1423 ventilate?1530 forespeak1546 outcry1567 oyez1599 vent1832 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Ecclus. xxxi. 11 Stablid ben þe goodis of hym in þe lord, & þe almes deedis of hym shal out tellen [v.r. out telle; L. enarrabit] al þe chirche of halewis. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Prol. Kings 99 If þou art of hard beleeue, rede greekis bookis & latynes & ley to gidere wiþ þese litle werkis þe whiche abouyn wee han out told [a1425 Corpus Oxf. out toold; v.r. ouȝte toold; a1425 L.V. teld aboue]. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. 6622 Amphiorax sanc doun deepe into hell, Because his wiff his counsail dede out tell. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Interp. & Virtues Mass 403 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 104 Eche clause out-tolde, dyuydyd into seuene, As most notable gracyous petycyons, Clerkes all conclude in theyr resons. 1591 R. Wilmot Tancred & Gismund ii. iii. sig. C2 Till he In sodain rage of griefe, ere I scarce had My tale out tolde, praid me to stint my suite. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 22 Thus all out-told Their fond imaginations. a1896 W. Morris tr. Story of Beowulf in Coll. Wks. (1910–11) X. 184 And soothly out told by manifest token, The hate of the hell-thane. 1908 E. Pound Ballad Wine Skins in Coll. Early Poems (1976) 251 The skin of my wine is broken, Is sunken and shrunken and old. My might is the might of thistle down, My name as a jest out-told. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > completely out-tell1623 1623 J. Abbot Iesus Præfigured ii. 52 And what reward? as Priests shall him out tell Poore thirtie pence, he will his Maister sell? 1868 J. H. Newman Verses Var. Occasions 215 And of our crimes the tale complete,..Outtold by our full numbers sweet. a1874 S. Dobell Eng. in Time War in Poet. Wks. (1875) I. 329 His kingdoms bear the half of all Thy stars! Who hath out-told his princes? a. transitive. To surpass the reckoning of. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > count beyond overtellc1610 out-reckona1625 out-tella1625 a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Coxcombe i. vi, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nn2v/1 I have out told the Clock, For hast, he is not here. b. transitive. To exceed in number; to outnumber. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1830 M. W. Shelley Fortunes Perkin Warbeck II. xvi. 306 Richard's troops..far out-told their adversaries. 1867 A. Webster Fairies' Chatter in Woman sold & Other Poems 196 That life, his life, is more than ours, Although our length of days out-tell its length of hours. 1870 Appleton's Jrnl. 10 Sept. 302/2 The dead out-told the living. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1382 |
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