outherod

present singular third person outherods · participle present outheroding · participle past outheroded · past outheroded

1. obsoleteObsolete form of out-Herod.

   This is outheroding old George Rose, and would, we are inclined to think, satisfy even Lord Malmsbury himself.

   1828 Dec, The Edinburgh Review

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   always with some touch of Leonidas-eloquence, often with a fire of daring that threatens to outherod Herod,—the Galleries, ‘especially the Ladies, never done with applauding’.

   1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)

   of being asked [...] in the Traveller's, why he did not establish a yacht in the Levant and outherod Lamartine [...].

   1841, Charles Henry Knox, Hardness