Definition of Outgaze

1. v. t. To gaze beyond; to exceed in sharpness or persistence of seeing or of looking; hence, to stare out of countenance.

Definition of Outgaze

1. Verb. To gaze beyond; to exceed in sharpness or persistence of seeing or of looking; hence, to stare out of countenance. ¹

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Definition of Outgaze

1. to surpass in gazing [v -GAZED, -GAZING, -GAZES] - See also: gazing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outgaze

outgallops
outgamble
outgambled
outgambles
outgambling
outgang
outgangs
outgas
outgases
outgate
outgates
outgave
outgaze (current term)
outgazed
outgazes
outgazing
outgeneral
outgeneraled
outgeneraling
outgeneralled
outgeneralling
outgenerals
outgive
outgiven
outgives
outgiving
outgivings

Literary usage of Outgaze

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Time Telling Through the Ages by Harry Chase Brearley (1919)
"... outfly the birds, outswim the fishes, outgaze the eagles, and overmatch the elephants in sheer physical force—he can turn night into day, ..."

2. The Metropolitan (1845)
"For Thebes, as if the desert should roll back Its sandy depths, and yield her up with all Untired with watching ? or will they outgaze Her hundred portals ? ..."

3. Upland and meadow: a Poaetquissings chronicle by Charles Conrad Abbott (1886)
"They enjoy a game of stare, and will outgaze you, in every contest. Twelve years ago, I felt justified in remarking that " on carefully approaching clear, ..."

4. Old English Plays: Being a Selection from the Early Dramatic Writers by Charles Wentworth Dilke (1815)
"And, sir, outgaze their falsehood: queen be just; Lest in the ocean of that prize you steal, You shipwreck all your glories. Sebast. 'Tis most strange. ..."

5. Westminster Drolleries: Both Parts, of 1671, 1672; Being a Choice Collection by Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (1875)
"First shall the nights Out-burne those Taper lights Which Emulate the one ey'd day ; Phoebus rayes Shall outgaze Titan in his chiefest praise ; Snow shall ..."

6. The American Bibliopolist (1874)
"... not heighten'the colors of Livy ; nor Montesquieu outgaze the sagacity of Tacitus. The Homeric poems are the Pleasures of Literature in an abridgment. ..."

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