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Definition of Outlearn
1. v. t. To excel or surpass in learing.
Definition of Outlearn
1. Verb. (transitive) To surpass in learning. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To learn completely and thoroughly; to exhaust knowledge of. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outlearn
1. to surpass in learning [v -LEARNED or -LEARNT, -LEARNING, -LEARNS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outlearn
Literary usage of Outlearn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ballads and Other Poems by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson (1880)
"... flung down to swine — The swine, lay-men, lay-women, who will come, God willing,
to outlearn the filthy friar. Ah rather, Lord, than that thy Gospel, ..."
2. Ballads and Other Poems by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson (1880)
"The Gospel, the Priest's pearl, flung down to swine — The swine, lay-men, lay-women,
who will come, God willing, to outlearn the filthy friar. ..."
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