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verboutrive (third-person singular simple present outrives, present participle outriving, simple past outrove, past participle outriven)
present singular third person outrives · participle present outriving · past outrove · participle past outriven
- obsoleteTo rive, sever or clear
outriveing of bent land
1677, Corshill Baron Court Book.2 more examples
The cou’nants be (he said) that thou vnfold / This wretched boſome, and my hart out riue, [...]
1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Third Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 27, page 44[...] Should all in rage the Curſe-beat Page out-riue, [...]
1599, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum. The three laſt Bookes. Of byting Satyres., Lib. 4, Sat. 1,, page 3, line 11
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