out-go

present singular third person out-goes · participle present out-going · past out-went · participle past out-gone

1. alternativeAlternative form of outgo.

   But John / (Our Friend) Molleſſon, / Thought us to have out-gone / VVith a quaint Invention.

   1668, John Denham, “On My Lord Croft’s and My Journey into Poland, from whence We Brought 10000 l. for His Majesty by the Decimation of His Scottish Subjects there”, in Poems and Translations, with The Sophy, London: […] [John Macock] for H[enry] Herringman […], →OCLC, stanza 10, page 68

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   Valor hath his limites, as other vertues have: vvhich if a man out-go, hee ſhall finde himſelfe in the traine of vice: […]

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Men are Punished by Too-much Opinionating Themselves in a Place without Reason”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 23

   In worth and excellence he ſhall out-go them, / Yet being above them, he ſhall be below them; […]

   1626 (date written), John Milton, “At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge, […]”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], published 1673, →OCLC, page 67

   VVhat, ſhall we talk further with him? or out-go him at preſent? and ſo leave him to think of what he hath heard already; and then ſtop again for him afterwards, and ſee if by degrees we can do any good of him?

   1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 164