outrightv.
/ˈaʊtrʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈaʊtˌraɪt/ U.S. Baseball slang.
transitive. To release (a player, esp. in a major league team) unconditionally from his or her contract. Cf. option v. 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (transitive)] > give free transfer
outright1966
1966 N.Y. Times 10 June 55/1 Richardson wasn't ‘optioned’; he was ‘outrighted’ to Jacksonville, which means that the Mets give up title to him.
1995 Denver Post 11 June b14/4 Mo Sanford..was outrighted to Triple-A Salt Lake by the Twins last week.
2000 N.Y. Times 3 Apr. d8/1 They..optioned the right-hander Kevin Hodges and infielder Carlos Hernandez to Tacoma, and outrighted right-hander Todd Williams to Tacoma.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
outrightadv.adj.
/(ˌ)aʊtˈrʌɪt/, /ˈaʊtrʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈˌaʊtˈˌraɪt/ A. adv.† 2. With reference to time: straightaway, forthwith, immediately, without delay. Obsolete.† 3.
1. To the full extent, completely, entirely; in a manner which shows no reservation or limitation; unrestrainedly; openly, blatantly, without concealment.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adverb]
unredlya1200
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largec1405
largelya1450
liberallya1500
frankly1541
unrestrainedly1635
ramping1807
outrightly1914
balls-out1959
uninhibitedly1959
c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 244 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 306 (MED) Ofte in fourme of womman..huy latez men ligge heom bi and bi-trayez heom ouȝtriȝt.
c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 440 Þei he be þe fende out-riȝt, Y schal for þe take þe fiȝt.
c1390 Castle of Love (Vernon) (1967) 283 (MED) Of on wille heo weoren bo, And of on studefastschipe also; Of on fulnesse heo weoren outriht, And boþe heo weoren of on miht.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xii. 34 (MED) Thre dayes & thre Nyht In his Enemyes daunger to be Owtriht..to the prikke Of deth he schold be browht.
a1500 (?a1325) Otuel & Roland (1935) 1809 (MED) He semyt wood out-ryȝt, so fast tho he gan to fyȝt, As hyt were a wylde lyoun.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndales Answere iii. p. ccxlix Wythin a whyle after..the frere made the fole mad out ryght.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. t3 Or last of all, we laugh him to skorne out right.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) i. ii. 41 Nay Elinor, then must I chide outright . View more context for this quotation
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Honest Mans Fortune v. i, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Xxxxx3/2 I simper'd sometime,..But never laught out-right.
1683 Dutch Rogue 207 He told them outright that the name of his inheriting a good Estate upon the Decease of his Mother in Law, was but a meer sham of the Old Woman.
1717 J. Addison in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Metamorphoses ii. 63 She neigh'd outright, and all the Steed exprest.
1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless III. ix. 117 ‘But there are other things to be considered,’ said miss Betsy, laughing outright.
1777 H. Mackenzie Julia de Roubigné I. iii. 23 I threw myself on my mother's neck, and wept outright.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. vii. 114 It cannot be their purpose to starve us outright; and yet..I see no preparations for serving dinner.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 404 Some bold man who..will say outright what is best for the city.
1895 T. Hardy Tess (rev. ed.) Pref. p. xi In planning the stories the idea was that large towns..should be named outright.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxx. 510 He was afraid to ask her outright to go with him.
1940 W. V. Quine Math. Logic iv. 164 Under Russell's scheme an abstraction prefix..can be applied outright to any meaningful formula.
1990 Bull. Hispanic Stud. 67 435/1 Viceroys..could get away with subverting and even opposing outright ministerial policies at the height of resurgent absolutism.
2003 Daily Oklahoman (Nexis) 23 Jan. 4 d An outspoken maverick on cultural matters who has the temerity to laugh outright at his friend's purchase, then makes things worse..when he tries to temporize.
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the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [adverb]
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presto changeo1946
now-now1966
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c1300 St. Leonard (Laud) 16 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 457 Þare fulle ani bischopriche þat he him miȝhte bi-take; Seint leonard nolde it graunti nouȝht: ake outriȝht it gan for-sake.
1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Eng. (new ed.) iv. v. 37/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Such as he found abroad in the countrie he slue out right on euerie side.
1611 T. Heywood Golden Age iv. sig. I2v If you but offer't, I shall cry out right.
1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 294 They shall be sent out of the Kingdom outright without delay.
a. With reference to direction in space: straight out; directly onward; straight ahead. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > a straight course > [adverb]
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the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adverb] > in forward direction > directly forwards
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > utterly
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outlyOE
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c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 1055 Þe hyȝe trone þer moȝt ȝe hede..A reuer of þe trone þer ran outryȝte.
1564 P. Moore Hope of Health ii. ix. 38 Sothern~woode..is good for them yt can not breath, but when they hold their necke outright.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 167 The same writer maketh mention of one that could see and discerne out-right 135 miles.
1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 17 It is easie to shoot a Fowl that flies out-right, but not a Bird which is irregular in its flight.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 129 I never travell'd in this Journey above two Miles outright in a Day, or thereabouts.
1849 R. Whately Let. in E. J. Whately Life & Corr. R. Whately (1866) II. 145 You get a brighter view of a comet, or some other of the heavenly bodies, when you are looking not outright at it, but at some other star near it.
b. Without a break; consecutively, continuously. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > [adverb]
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bedenea1300
continuallyc1305
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1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 597 Nicias..thus travelling eight dayes iorney outright together.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 323 So would they ride them an hundred and fifty miles out right.
4.
a. So that the act is finished at once; altogether, entirely, utterly. to kill (also slay, etc.) outright: to kill in such a manner that the victim dies on the spot.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb] > entirely, altogether, or completely
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allingOE
outlyOE
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a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid (1584) iii l. 339 King Priams doughter bright: That vnderneath the walls of Troy was done to death outright.
1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars iii. lxxiv. 73 Where slaine outright I now the same behold?
1705 Boston News-let. 9 Apr. 2/2 The French man had 22 men kill'd out-right, and all the rest dangerously wounded.
1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 166 They had scarce crowded in and moved off a Piece, when their Ship sunk outright and went plum to the Bottom.
1772 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 452 (note) A man..was killed outright by one blow of a poker.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xvii. 290 It was well for him that he could not know what they had heard, or it [sc. his heart] would have broken outright.
1865 E. C. Gaskell Cousin Phillis iv. 122 He has..killed the tree outright.
1884 Manch. Examiner 21 Mar. 5/1 The majority of those who fell were not killed outright by the bullet which sent them to the ground.
1925 Australasian (Melbourne) 3 Jan. 29/5 The Victorians were hopeful of winning the rubber outright..but the New South Welshmen batted vigorously.
1967 A. Djoleto Strange Man i. 10 He wasn't dismissed outright as one would expect.
1989 Japan Times 15 May 4/3 To win outright, Menem needs at least 301 of the 600 electors.
b. In such a manner that a transaction is completed without any conditions remaining, and ownership is immediately transferred from one party to another; (spec.) not by degrees or instalments. Esp. in to sell (also buy, purchase, etc.) outright.
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1600 R. Chambers Palestina 10 [She] wilfully made herselfe bondslaue, by selling outright a royall and reall good for a proud imaginatiue Godhead.
1623 Ld. Carew in Lismore Papers (1888) 2nd Ser. III. 61 Lett me knowe..whether I should sett it for a yearely rent, or sell it out right.
1656 H. Phillippes Purchasers Pattern (ed. 3) i. 19 What may be the value of them to buy them out right?
1744 J. Ralph Astrologer ii. i. 26 You need not buy these Things outright, but only hire them for a few Hours.
1885 Law Times 78 458/1 The interests might have been disposed of outright.
1922 T. S. Eliot Let. 25 June (1988) I. 530 As I read Liveright's form, it practically gives him world rights..and seems tantamount to selling him the book outright for $150.
1997 What Investm. Mar. 118/2 A mortgage has to be taken out at the time of purchase—it is no good buying a place outright and then deciding three or four years later to take out a mortgage.
B. adj. (usually attributive).† 2. Directed or going straight ahead. Obsolete.
1. Downright, out-and-out, thorough; blatant, manifest.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute
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righteous1940
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1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 404/2 A mouthe..playeth sometime ye frere, sometime ye foxe, sometime the foole, & sometime the outeright ribauld.
1767 C. Smart tr. Horace Art of Poetry in tr. Horace Wks. (new ed.) IV. 238 My friends! Admitted to so strange a sight, Wou'd not your laughter be outright?
1784 E. Allen Reason xi. §1. 359 A priviledge incompatable with his nature..would have been no priviledge at all, but an outright mockery.
1851 H. W. Beecher Lect. Young Men iv. 98 The young are seldom tempted to outright wickedness.
1856 J. W. Kaye Life Sir J. Malcolm I. vii. 98 Malcolm did everything in a hearty outright manner.
1885 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham xx. 371 I was ashamed of making it so outright from the beginning.
1937 Life 1 Nov. 96/1 Hollywood's picture of itself in this movie is outright satire.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 191 One who makes up to a teacher is recognized as being in a slightly different category from an outright sneak, although almost as nauseous.
1988 A. Lurie Truth about Lorin Jones viii. 137 ‘Of course not,’ she declared, adding an outright lie to an earlier lie of omission.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > a straight course > [adjective]
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1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xxi. 149 The long time, is expressed by a streight outright line, which being set ouer anie vowell..telleth vs, that the same vowell..must be pronounced long.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Dressiere, a straight or outright path, or tract.
1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 192 The river..glided seaward with an even, outright, but imperceptible speed.
3. Complete, total; without reservation or qualification, unconditional.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > [adjective] > constituting or comprising a whole
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1845 Amer. Rev. Dec. 594/2 Such a principle sum, on the outright sale of the rent and all reservations..will produce an interest of twenty-five dollars.
1879 Harper's Mag. Dec. 55/1 Abraham understood the proposition for buksheesh too well to accept, and insisted on an outright purchase.
1928 Amer. Econ. Rev. 18 227 This is manifested by the outright sale of a machine, tool, factory, or piece of land.
1957 Times 19 Dec. 15/1 There was rather more outright buying of Dominion and Colonial stocks.., as well as a fair amount of swapping among Crown Colony loans.
1985 Highway & Heavy Constr. (Nexis) July 42 In all cases, compare the outright cost of the equipment to the cost of carrying the system on a lease.
2001 R. Cellan Dot.bomb viii. 134 Out of every ten companies they back they expect one or two to be outright failures.
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