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Definition of Outwatch
1. v. t. To exceed in watching.
Definition of Outwatch
1. Verb. To watch more than someone else ¹
2. Verb. To maintain a vigil beyond the end ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outwatch
1. to watch longer than [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outwatch
Literary usage of Outwatch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1845)
"Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may
oft outwatch the Bear With thrice-great Hermes, ..."
2. English Poems from Chaucer to Kipling by Thomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long (1903)
"87. outwatch the Bear. The constellation of the Bear (also called Charles's Wain,
or, ... To outwatch it a man must sit up till it fades at dawn. ..."
3. English Poems by Walter Cochrane Bronson (1909)
"U 87. outwatch the Bear: sit up all night, since th1s constellation (which contains
the pole star) never sets in northern latitudes. ..."
4. Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle (1896)
"Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tow'r Where I may
oft outwatch the Bear. MILTON, // Penseroso, I. 85 ff. ..."
5. Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics by Francis Turner Palgrave (1904)
"87. outwatch the Bear. ' Out' as a prefix here means beyond or over, as in outweigh,
... "To outwatch the Bear" is therefore to remain awake till daybreak, ..."
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