outdure

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verb

To endure beyond; to outlast.

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Meanings

verboutdure (third-person singular simple present outdures, present participle outduring, simple past and past participle outdured)

present singular third person outdures · participle present outduring · participle past outdured · past outdured

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo endure beyond; to outlast.

    Egyptians, dare you think your higheſt Pyramids, Built to out-dure the Sun, as you ſuppoſe, Where your unworthy Kings lye rak'd in Aſhes, Are Monuments fit for him?

    1619–1620, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The False One. A Tragedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene i

Origin

From out- + dure.

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