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Definition of Outfools
1. outfool [v] - See also: outfool
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outfools
Literary usage of Outfools
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"Reading them, we involuntarily repeat the poet's line: " The learned fool outfools
the fool untrained." The absurd was carried to its farthest limits in the ..."
2. The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins by John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836)
"... What cause to blush at home 1 In life's decline, when men relapse Into the
sports of youth, The second child outfools the first, And tempts the lash of ..."
3. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"In life's decline, when men relapse Into the sports of youth, The second child
outfools the first, And tempts the lash of truth. ..."
4. Poetical Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young: With the Life of the Author by Edward Young (1805)
"In life's decline, when men relapse Into the sports of youth, The second child
outfools the first, And tempts the lash of Truth ..."
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