Meanings
verbouthire (third-person singular simple present outhires, present participle outhiring, simple past and past participle outhired)
present singular third person outhires · participle present outhiring · participle past outhired · past outhired
- obsoleteraretransitiveTo hire out.
When good was onely for it selfe desyred, / And all men sought their owne, and none no more; / When Iustice was not for most meed outhyred, / But simple Truth did rayne, and was of all admyred.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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