outcant

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/aʊtˈkænt/

verb

To surpass in canting; to use more jargon than.

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Meanings

verboutcant (third-person singular simple present outcants, present participle outcanting, simple past and past participle outcanted)

present singular third person outcants · participle present outcanting · participle past outcanted · past outcanted

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo surpass in canting; to use more jargon than.

    I paſs o'er all thoſe Confeſſors and Martyrs Who live like S—tt—n, or who die like Charters, Out-cant old Eſdras, or out-drink his Heir, Out-uſure Jews, or Iriſhmen out-ſwear; [...]

    1735, Alexander Pope, “The Second Satire of Dr. John Donne”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume II, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 47, lines 35–38

Origin

From out- + cant.

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