Definition of Follow out

1. Verb. Pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue. "She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Follow Out

follow
follow'd
follow-on
follow-ons
follow-the-leader
follow-through
follow-throughs
follow-up
follow-up studies
follow-up study
follow-ups
follow in someone's footsteps
follow on
follow one's bliss
follow ons
follow out (current term)
follow somebody off a cliff
follow suit
follow through
follow up
follow up on
followable
followday
followdays
followed
followed by
followed on
followed up
follower
followers

Literary usage of Follow out

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

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... (more generally) smaller fragments and subjecting them to obedience which it is not profitable to follow out in detail, native churches in Europe, Asia, ..."

2. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by New York (State). Constitutional Convention (1916)
"I therefore drafted this morning a provision, of which I have sent a copy to the chairman on Cities, which endeavors to follow out that method and simply to ..."

3. Commentaries Upon Martial Law: With Special Reference to Its Regulation and by William Francis Finlason, Alexander James Edmund Cockburn (1867)
"And these statutes, the scope of which is only procedure and place of trial (for which reason they do not apply to actions), only affirm and follow out the ..."

4. The Land Laws by Frederick Pollock (1896)
"We have to follow out a long story before we can understand how much and how little feudalism abides in the present state of things. ..."

5. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1919)
"... to follow out Mr. Adams' reasoning into its legitimate consequences, and draw his own fair conclusions from its effects. His client was well known and ..."

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