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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"
Generic synonyms: Complete, Finish
Specialized synonyms: Adhere
Related verbs: Accomplish, Action, Carry Out, Carry Through, Execute, Fulfil, Fulfill
Derivative terms: Follow-through, Follow-up, Follow-up, Follow-up, Followup, Followup, Followup, Implementation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Follow Out
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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