Meanings
verboutwar (third-person singular simple present outwars, present participle outwarring, simple past and past participle outwarred)
present singular third person outwars · participle present outwarring · participle past outwarred · past outwarred
- transitiveTo defeat or surpass (someone) in warfare.
They [the French] deſire (king Edward [III] grovvne aged) not to ſeeme by ſitting ſtill vpon ſo many thornes of diſgrace, and loſſe, to haue beene outvvarred, though ouer-vvarred, and though in tvvo or three battels inferior, yet not to haue beene clearly debellated.
1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edward the Third, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 138, page 586, column 2
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