2. Verb. to bring about, produce ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) to exceed others in leading or leadership ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) to lead better than another ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outlead
1. to surpass in leading [v -LED, -LEADING, -LEADS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outlead
Literary usage of Outlead
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1885)
"... the youthful visitants Were instant to outlead from Sodoma The race Chaldaean,s
and the righteous house Consign to safety : " Ho ! come, Lot ! arise, ..."
2. Specimens of Newspaper Literature: With Personal Memoirs, Anecdotes, and by Joseph Tinker Buckingham (1852)
"Go! let the memory of the smarting throng outlead the pity that would prompt to
save; Go let the oppressor's contumelious wrong, Twice nerve the hero's arm, ..."
3. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Allan Menzies, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"... attempts to climb The darkness, and heaven's face wears double hue "5 From
night and day, the youthful visitants Were instant to outlead from Sodoma The ..."
4. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts, Allan Menzies (1870)
"... the youthful visitants Were instant to outlead from Sodoma The race Chaldean,1
and the righteous house Consign to safety: " Ho ! come, Lot! arise, ..."
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