Meanings
verboutsift (third-person singular simple present outsifts, present participle outsifting, simple past and past participle outsifted)
present singular third person outsifts · participle present outsifting · participle past outsifted · past outsifted
- archaicpoetictransitiveTo sift out.
But when we are uplifted, / And all the chaff outsifted […]
1873, Sara Louisa Oberholtzer, Violet Lee, and Other Poems, page 721 more example
So let me not sift amiss, / But by Wisdom still be taught / To outsift each evil thought / From the mind, and keep behind / The food of bliss.
1872, John Charles Curtis, The New Poetical Reader, page 140
Origin
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