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1624 Abp. J. Williams Let. 24 May in Cabala (1654) 94 The Treasurers..began then to out-top me, and appeared..likely enough..in time to do as much to your Grace.

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. K6^v Reason ought to bear away the bell. But irefull ignorance cannot abide To be outtopd, reprochfully twill yell.

1764 ‘G. Psalmanazar’ Memoirs 73 He doubted not but to see me outtop all the rest in less than a year or two.

1770 E. Thompson Trinculo's Trip to Jubilee 22 Garrick superior stood alone, His usual brightness he outshone, Out-top'd his former spirit.

1814 F. Burney Wanderer II. iii. xxvii. 179 I have never seen you since that night of our all acting together in that play, when you out-topped us all so to nothing!

1860 F. Temple in Ess. & Rev. 12 The idea of monotheism out-tops all other ideas in dignity and worth.

1928 Social Forces 6 331/1 No geniuses of the future can out-top the best of the past.

1992 English 41 99 Lear's agonies, though also, perhaps, his joys however transitory or delusive, will outtop Gloucester's.

a1672 F. Willughby Bk. of Games (2003) 221 They thrust up their necks & strive to out top one another.

1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 161 To the Northwest is a high mountain that out-tops all, with its three rising little hills.

1777 G. Forster Voy. round World II. 170 Innumerable coco-palms out-topped the woods.

1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xii. 85 Unable..to send out lateral branches, like stalks of grain they had all grown straight up, hastening, as in a race, each to out-top its neighbour.

1877 G. F. Maclear St. Mark (1879) iv. 55 The thorns gradually out-topped it.

1898 Science 29 July 120/2 It will be seen that on June 11th the gypsum wheat actually out-topped that from the adobe soil.

1955 Times 29 Aug. 8/6 Its spires easily out-top the minarets of the principal mosque.

1986 P. D. James Taste of Death ii. iv. 201 Nellie Ackroyd..was slim where he was plumpish..and out-topped him by three inches.