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Definition of Outtop
1. v. t. To overtop.
Definition of Outtop
1. Verb. (obsolete) To overtop. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outtop
1. to excel [v OUTTOPPED, OUTTOPPING, OUTTOPS] - See also: excel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outtop
Literary usage of Outtop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sewanee Review by University of the South (1896)
"... to outtop And civil manners all times hitherto — What feeling then, unhappy
mortal race What thought of thee at last my heart assails? ..."
2. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone by John Morley (1911)
"But he also sent a ship or ships to the Baltic; and I believe that my father,
whose energy soon began to outtop that of all the very large family, ..."
3. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone by John M. Morley (1903)
"But he also sent a ship or ships to the Baltic; and I believe that my father,
whose energy soon began to outtop that of all the very large family, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1864)
"Eton being, from its size and local advantages, commonly considered the first
school in the country, there is no strain at work on the boys to outtop ..."
5. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"With the high is associated no idea of what is striking; but the tall is coupled
with the aspiring, or that which strives to outtop: the lofty is always ..."
6. Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme (1908)
"She is in great reputation, and it's thought will at last outtop the Lady of
Loretto ; there is another near ..."
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