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Definition of Outreasoned
1. outreason [v] - See also: outreason
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outreasoned
Literary usage of Outreasoned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1893)
"says : 'they call me a magician vanquished by Peter and outreasoned. But it is
not because a person has been outreasoned and caught in a snare that he has ..."
2. Some Great Leaders in the World Movement by Robert Elliott Speer (1911)
"They were not willing to be persuaded or outreasoned, and Lull was cast into
prison to await deportation, one of the Moslems commending the devotion of the ..."
3. The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years, as Seen in Its by Henry Martyn Dexter, Andover Theological Seminary (1880)
"... even the scholars of the great universities were still uncertain whether
Copernicus had fairly outreasoned Ptolemy in his theory of the solar system.2 ..."
4. Greece: II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens by George Grote (1900)
"It was this long and frequent debate, with opposition often repeated but always
outreasoned, which working gradually deeper and deeper conviction in the ..."
5. The State Records of North Carolina by North Carolina, Walter Clark, William Laurence Saunders, Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1898)
"... things being desperate when I hired the first obliged me to come to their
terms, but in both of these proposals I "was overruled tho' not outreasoned. ..."
6. Democracy in Education: A Social Interpretation of the History of Education by Joseph Kinmont Hart (1918)
"... an age which repeats in some ways the experience of the age of the Sophists
in Greece. But reason outreasoned itself and became utterly ..."
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