Meanings
verboutlearn (third-person singular simple present outlearns, present participle outlearning, simple past and past participle outlearned or outlearnt)
present singular third person outlearns · participle present outlearning · participle past outlearned · past outlearned · participle past outlearnt · past outlearnt
- obsoletetransitiveTo learn (something) completely and thoroughly; to exhaust knowledge of.
But when as nought according to his mind / He could outlearne
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 241 more example
To love and be beloved; / Men and gods have not outlearned it; / And, how oft soe'er they've turned it, / 'Tis not to be improved.
1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Eros”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, page 150
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Rhymes with outlearn
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