a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 168 To regulate his out-goes..to order and frugality.

1759 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 16 The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes are greater than her Incomes.

1860 R. W. Emerson Wealth in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 102 The secret of success lies..in the relation of income to outgo.

1895 W. Harcourt Speech 22 May Grow as the income or the intake may, the outgo and the waste are always greater.

1932 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Sept. 1/7 The Senatorial committee..filed a separate report of its income and outgo with the clerk of the House of Representatives.

1993 Time Internat. 18 Jan. 28/1 If a good guess at his or her income doesn't add up to the outgo it's likely that the shortfall is being covered by..family inheritance.

1858 W. Arnot Laws from Heaven II. xvii. 142 [Anger] hurts, in its outgo, all who lie within its reach.

1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. i. iv. 92 In a system of elastic tubes..the outgo being as easy or nearly as easy as the income, the elasticity of the walls of the tubes is not called into play.

1930 F. A. Pottle Stretchers 15 The outgo was set for Saturday, December 19.

1989 Millbank Q. 67 Supp. 1. 5 Dropsy seemed to fit neatly into neohumoral models of pathology with their emphasis on balance and intake and outgo.

1869 S. Bowles Our New West i. 26 The great Salt Lake of Utah..has no visible outgo, though richly fed from various quarters.

1880 S. S. Hellyer Plumber 15 A square~pipe trap, with a round outgo.

1870 W. Urwick tr. F. Bleek Introd. New Test. II. 175 Their scorn was the outgo of the same frivolous mind.

eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) xviii. 4 (5) In omnem terram exiuit sonus eorum : in alle eorðan uteode swoeg heara.

OE Blickling Homilies 9 Drihten asette on sunnan his hus, & of þæm uteode swa swa brydguma of his brydbure.

OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) viii. 52 Ðweah hine þærmid & læd ut of þam huse..þonne he ut ga ne beseo he hyne na onbæc.

c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 220 Þet on goodman was þat ferst uut yede bi þe Moreghen for to here werkmen.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3074 Quilc ben ðo ðe sulen vt-gon?

a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) xliii. 11 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 175 In our mightes, god, noght sal tou outga.

c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 637 With grysely soun out goth [v.r. out went] the grete g[o]nne.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 201 (MED) Anone this mountayns tham Ioynet to-gedyr so stydfaste that none of tham myght out-gone by none engyne.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 650/2 I outgo, I go out of the waye, Je foruoye.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 20 I sawe a shole of shepeheardes outgoe.

a1635 R. Corbet Poems (1807) 15 Out-went the townsmen all in starch.

1899 P. H. Wicksteed tr. Dante Paradiso xiii. 161 That living Light which so outgoeth from its Source that it departeth not therefrom.

1905 Outlook 4 Nov. 629/1 So you, dear Frank, were last of those To whom a tender thought outgoes.

1986 R. A. Jamieson Thin Wealth 207 Wir spirits most ootgeng be understandin wings!

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 650/2 Though thou be goynge an hour afore me, yet I wyll out go the.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. viii. sig. S5^v Yet fled she fast, and both them farre outwent . View more context for this quotation

1649 R. Lovelace Poems (1864) 93 What terror 'tis t' outgo and be outgon.

1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 164 Shall we talk further with him? or out-go him at present? View more context for this quotation

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. ii. 138 It generally happens that he on horseback out-goes him on foot. View more context for this quotation

1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Workington Horses, which changing often, travel day and night without intermission, and, as they say, out-go the post.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. f. 61^v Wo be to that realme where might outgoeth right.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. 16 His wonted songs, wherein he all outwent.

1673 J. Milton At Vacation Exercise in Poems (new ed.) 67 In worth and excellence he shall out-go them.

1683 F. Willis et al. tr. Anacreon done into Eng. 55 His Red, plump Lips and little Mouth Will puzzle and torment us both. Pretty, Delicious,—oh they've outgone All Art, and all Description.

1756 S. Johnson Lett. 31 July (1992) I. 138 If your curiosity outgoes your interest..intelligence will reach you as soon as me.

1799 A. Hamilton Let. 3 May in Papers (1976) XXII. 98 (note) I do not think it expedient to outgo our supply of Cloathing.

1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche vii. xxiii. 88 Such sorrow as outwent The utmost pains of other punishment.

1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros vii. 82 Lady Prezmyra..outwent the rest in beauty and queenliness as Venus the lesser planets of the night.

1998 Guardian (Nexis) 19 Sept. 10 The reader is grappled close to a man who outgoes the role of servant assigned him by historical records.

2011 M. Reynolds Poetry of Transl. xxv. 306 The nimble, intuitive work of the great poetic translaters outgoes whatever critical categories are brought to bear on it.

1595 E. Spenser Amoretti lx, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. D7^v One yeare..The which doth longer vnto me appeare, Then al those fourty which my life outwent.

1614 W. S. in T. Overbury et al. Wife now Widdow Newes from Sea sig. G4 I haue once in my life out-gon night at Sea.

1668 J. Denham Poems 68 Mollesson, Thought us to have out-gone With a quaint Invention.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Outgo, To circumvent, to overreach.