a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 120 Eueryche byschinynge is a certein out stremynge of þe substance of liȝt [L. Nam lumen est quidam defluxus a luce, siue irradiatio defluens a substantia lucis].

1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles xiii. 237 An actual outstreaming and outbreathing of the fulness of his inner life.

1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights I. xxi. 210 It is an outstreaming and conducting of a force of being.

1886 Athenæum 20 Feb. 266/3 Rapid out-streamings of matter from the head [of a comet].

1923 H. H. Clayton World Weather 362 There is a continuous instreaming or outstreaming of air masses which play an important rôle in meteorology.

1932 S. J. Case Jesus through Centuries vi. 147 His power was operative only at second hand, as an outstreaming of divine energy in the form of a pervading rationality called Logos.

1598 H. Petowe 2nd Pt. Hero & Leander sig. Civ My loue exil'd, and I in prison fast, Out streaming teares breake into weeping raine.

1834 J. Blackie tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust iii. ii. 95 (stage direct.) Drawing the corks, and quaffing the out-streaming liquor, each as he had desired.

1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 110 Through an arid gloom the river Claudière Fled like a Maenad with outstreaming hair.

1920 C. C. Martindale in Fr. Cuthbert God & Supernatural x. 326 This out-streaming self may be redirected to the true.

1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. i. i. 29 As a rule, speech sounds are produced by glottal vibrations or by noises caused by the ‘outstreaming’ air.

1986 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 47 5 When daylight, a kind of gentle fire, meets this outstreaming substance, like encounters like, and the two coalesce to form the visual ray.