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Definition of Outvie
1. Verb. Be more of a rival than.
Definition of Outvie
1. v. t. To exceed in vying.
Definition of Outvie
1. Verb. To outdo a competitor or rival ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outvie
1. to surpass in a competition [v -VIED, -VYING, -VIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outvie
Literary usage of Outvie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roman Life Under the Caesars by Émile Thomas (1899)
"... they outvie one another in servility—But the Emperor maintains an attitude of
suspicion— Cruelty of the emperors towards their competitors and ..."
2. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1884)
"Born for a day, yet does their bloom outvie the wonders of the loom, And mock
the skill of man ! Shall we be cared for less than they, ..."
3. General View of the Agriculture in the County of Somerset: With Observations by John Billingsley (1794)
"... THE outvie IN OXEN AND CALVES, WITH ITS CURE, AND THE METHOD O1T PREVENTIN 3
IT IN THE CASTRATION OF CALVES. THE excellency of the Herefordshire breed ..."
4. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1883)
"Its walls are variegated with a thousand colours so softly and delicately blended,
as to outvie the finest productions of the painter's brush. ..."
5. Reasons for Not Taking the Test: For Not Conforming to the Established by John Talbot Shrewsbury (1828)
"... outvie those " Papists of the East," (r) Nothing can be more unjust than the
outcry raised against the Irish labourers who have followed their landlords ..."
6. A New French and English Dictionary in Two Parts by William Cobbett (1833)
"Tu OUTVAL'UE, va. dépasser, surpasser, valoir mieux. [sur. Tu outvie', va.
surpayer, vaincre, l'emporter To ..."
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