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Definition of Feel out
1. Verb. Try to learn someone's opinions and intentions. "I have to sound out the new professor"
Definition of Feel out
1. Verb. to cautiously try to ascertain a person's point of view or the nature of a situation by subtle means ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feel Out
Literary usage of Feel out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nonconformist's Memorial: Being an Account of the Ministers, who Were by Edmund Calamy, Samuel Palmer (1775)
"How might I feel out heaven this way, as well as fee it by believing ! Lord help,
and I {hall do it. ..."
2. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History by William Whewell (1847)
"Brown answers by the muscular sense; that is, by the conscious exertions of the
various muscles by which we move our limbs. When we feel out the form and ..."
3. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History by William Whewell (1847)
"When we feel out the form and position of bodies by the hand, our knowledge is
acquired, not by the mere touch of the body, but by perceiving the course the ..."
4. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"The professional represents good golf, and his scheme of play is to feel out the
correct position in action, while the average amateur represents poor golf, ..."
5. History of Scientific Ideas: Being the First Part of The Philosophy of the by William Whewell (1858)
"When we feel out the form and position of bodies by the hand, our knowledge is
acquired, not by the mere touch of the body, but by perceiving the course the ..."
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