What may be hoped, When not from Helicon's imagined spring, But sacred writ, we borrow what we sing? This with the fabrick of the world begun, Elder than light, and shall outlast the sun. OUTLAW, n. s. & v. a. Sax. urlaga; Goth. Sutlag. One excluded from the benefits or protection of the law; to deprive of such benefits; the decree or word of deprivation. OUTLAWRY. Gathering unto him all the scatterlings and outlaws out of the woods and mountains, he marched forth into the English pale. Spenser. As long as they were out of the protection of the law, so as every Englishman might kill them, how should they be other than outlaws and enemies to the crown of England? Davies. I had a son He that is drunken South. All those spiritual aids are withdrawn, which should assist him to good, or fortify him against ill; and like an outlawed person he is exposed to all that will assault him. Decay of Piety. OUTLAWRY is the punishment of a person who, being called into law, and lawfully, according to the usual forms, sought, does contemptuously refuse to appear. The effect of being outlawed at the suit of another, in a civil cause, is the forfeiture of all the person's goods and chattels to the king, and the profits of his land, while the outlawry remains in force. If in treason or felony, all the lands and tenements which he has in fee, or for life, and all his goods and chattels, are also forfeited; and, besides, the law interprets his absence as a sufficient evidence of guilt; and, without requiring farther proof, accounts the person guilty of the fact; on which ensues corruption of blood, &c. However, to avoid inhumanity, no man is entitled to kill him wantonly or wilfully; but in so doing he is guilty of murder, unless it happens in endeavouring to apprehend him; for any body may arrest an outlaw, either of his own head, or by writ or warrant of cution. If, after outlawry in civil cases, the decapias utlagatum, in order to bring him to exefendant publicly appear, he is to be arrested by a writ of capias utlagatum, and committed till the outlawry be reversed; which reversal may be had by the defendant's appearing in court (and in the king's bench by sending an attorney, according to statutes 4 and 5 William and Mary cap. 18), and any plausible circumstance, however trifling, is in general sufficient to reverse it; it being considered only as a process to force appearance. The defendant must, however, pay full costs, and must put the plaintiff in the same condition as if he had appeared before the writ of exegi facias was awarded. It is appointed by magna charta that no freeman shall be outlawed, but according to the law of the land. A minor or a woman cannot be outlawed. In Scotland outlawry anciently took place in the case of refusal to fulfil a civil obligation, as well as in criminal cases. At present, however, it only takes place in the two cases of flying from a criminal prosecution, and of appearing in court attended by too great a number of followers. But the defender, upon appearing at any distance of time, and offering to stand trial, is entitled, de jure, to nave the outlawry reversed, and to be admitted to trial accordingly, and even to bail, if the offence be bailable. OUTLEAP', n. s. Out and leap. Sally; flight; escape. Since youth must have some liberty, some outleaps, they might be under the eye of a father, and then no very great harm can come of it. Locke. OUTLET, n. s. Out and let. Passage outwards; discharge outwards; egress; passage of The news put divers young bloods into such a fury as the English ambassadors were not without peril to be outraged. Bacon. They viewed the vast immeasurable abyss, Outragious as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild. Milton. My characters of Antony and Cleopatra, though they are favourable to them, have nothing of outragious panegyric. Dryden. When he knew his rival freed and gone, He swells with wrath; he makes outragious moan; He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground; The hollow tower with clamours rings around. Id. Virgil, more discreet than Homer, has contented himself with the partiality of his deities, without bringing them to the outragiousness of blows. Id. Let lust burn never so outragiously for the present, yet age will in time chill those heats. South. Base and insolent minds outrage men, when they have hopes of doing it without a return. Atterbury. This interview outrages all decency; she forgets her modesty, and betrays her virtue, by giving too long an audience. d Broome. See with what outrage from the frosty north, The early valiant Swede draws forth his wings In battailous array. Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule And righteous limitation of its act, Philips. By which Heaven moves in pardoning guilty man; And he that shows none, being ripe in years, And conscious of the outrage he commits, Shall seek it, and not find it, in his turn. Cowper. OUTRAM, or OWTRAM (William), D. D., a divine of the established church, was born in Derbyshire in 1625, and educated at Cambridge. After various promotions, he was collated to the archdeaconry of Leicester, and installed prebendary of St. Peter's church in Westminster. He was also rector of St. Margaret's, in the same city. He died in 1679, celebrated for his rabbinical learning, and his acquaintance with the Fathers of the church. His works are, De Sacrificiis Libri duo; quorum altero explicantur omnia Judæorum, et nonnulla Gentium profanarum sacrificia; altero Sacrificium Christi, &c., recently translated by Mr. Allen; Twenty Sermons preached upon different Occasions. OUTREACH', v. a. Out and reach. To go beyond. This usage is derived from so many descents of ages, that the cause and author outreach remembrance. Carew. Our forefathers could never dream so high a crime as parricide, whereas this outreaches that fact, and exceeds the regular distinctions of murder. Browne. OUTRIDE', v. a. Out and ride. To pass by riding. This advantage age from youth hath won, As not to be outridden, though outrun. Dryden. OUT-RIDER, n. s. Out and rider. A summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff. OUTRIGHT', adv. Out and right. Immediately; without delay; completely. When these wretches had the ropes about their necks, the first was to be pardoned, the last hanged outright. Arbuthnot. By degrees accomplished in the beast, He neighed outright, and all the steed exprest. Addison. OUTROAR', v. a.. Out and roar. To exceed in roaring. He set horsemen and footmen, to the end that, issuing out, they might make outrodes upon the ways of Judæa. 1 Maccabees xv. 41. OUTROOT', v. a. Out and root. To extirpate; to eradicate. Pernicious discord seems With any mark of war's destructive rage, Rowe's Ambitious Step-Mother. OUTRUN', v. a. Out and run. To leave behind in running; to exceed. By giving the house of Lancaster leave to breathe, It will outrun you, father, in the end. Shakspeare. The expedition of my violent love Outruns the pauser reason.. Id. Macbeth. We may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at. Shakspeare. When things are come to the execution, there is no secrecy comparable to celerity, like the motion of a bullet in the air, which flieth so swift as it outruns the eye. Bucon. This advantage age from youth hath won, As not to be outridden, though outrun. Dryden. We outrun the present income, as not doubting to reimburse ourselves out of the profits of some future project. Addison, OUTSAIL', v. a. Out and sail. To leave behind in sailing. The word signifies a ship that outsails other ships. Broome. Out and scape. Power OUT'SCAPE, n. s. of escaping. It past Our powers to lift aside a log so vast, As barred all outscape. Chapman. down or confront by contempt; to despise; not OUTSCORN', v. a. Out and scorn. To bear to mind. He strives in his little world of man t' outscorn' The to and fro conflicting wind and rain. Shakspeare. OUTSELL', v. a. Out and sell. To exceed in the price for which a thing is sold; to sell at a higher rate than another. It would soon improve to such a height as to outsel our neighbours, and thereby advance the proTemple. portion of our exported commodities. Her pretty action did outsel her gift, And yet enriched it too. Shakspeare. Cymbeline. OUTSHINE', v. a. Out and shine. To emit lustre; to excel in lustre. Witness my son, now in the shade of death; Hath in eternal darkness folded up. Whose bright outshining beams thy cloudy wrath Shakspeare. By Shakspeare's, Jonson's, Fletcher's lines, Our stage's lustre, Rome's outshines. Denham. Beauty and greatness are so eminently joined in your royal highness, that it were not easy for any but a poet to determine which of them outshines the other. Dryden. The forward youth Will learn t'outshoot you in your proper bow. Dryden. Men are resolved never to outshoot their forefather's mark; but write one after another, and so the dance goes round in a circle. Norris. OUTSIDE, n. s. Out and side. Superficies; surface; external part; superficial appearance; extreme part; the part beyond. You shall find his vanities forespent Shakspeare. Fortune forbid, my outside have not charmed her! ld. Your outside promiseth as much as can be expected from a gentleman. Bacon. Hold an arrow in a flame for the space of ten pulses, and, when it cometh forth, those parts which were on the outsides of the flame are blacked and turned into a coal. Id. What admirest thou, what transports thee so? An outside? fair, no doubt, and worthy well Thy cherishing and thy love. What pity that so exquisite an outside of a head should not have one grain of sense in it. Milton. L'Estrange. The leathern outside, boisterous as it was, Gave way and bent. Dryden. The ornaments of conversation, and the outside of fashionable manners, will come in their due time. Locke. Created beings see nothing but our outside, and can therefore only frame a judgment of us from our exterior actions. Addison's Spectator. I threw open the door of my chamber, and found the family standing on the outside. Id. Two hundred load upon an acre, they reckon the outside of what is to be laid. Mortimer. OUTSIT, v. a. Out and sit. To sit beyond the time of any thing. He that prolongs his meals and sacrifices his time, as well as his other conveniences, to his luxury, how quickly does he outsit his pleasure! South. OUTSLEEP', v. a. Out and sleep. To sleep beyond. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time : OUTSPEAK', v. a. Out and speak. To speak something beyond; to exceed. Rich stuffs and ornaments of household Shakspeare. Henry VIII. OUTSPORT, v. a. Out and sport. To sport beyond. With sails outspread we fly. OUTSTAND', v. a. support; to resist. Pope. Το Each could demolish the other's work with ease enough, but not a man of them tolerably defend his own; which was sure never to outstand the first attack that was made. Woodward. I have outstood my time, which is material To the tender of our present. Shakspeare. Cymbeline. OUTSTARE', v. a. Out and stare. To face down; to brow-beat; to out-face with effrontery. I would outstare the sternest eyes that look, To win thee, lady. Shakspeare. Merchant of Venice. Outstares the lids of large-lookt tyranny. Crashaw. These curtained windows, this self-prisoned eye, OUT'STREET, n. s. Out and street. Street in the extremities of a town. OUTSTRETCH', v. a. Out and stretch. To extend; to spread out. Make him stand upon the mole-hill, That caught at mountains with out-stretched arms. Shakspeare. Out-stretched he lay on the cold ground, and oft Cursed his creation. Milton's Paradise Lost. A mountain, at whose verdant feet A spacious plain, out-stretched, in circuit wide Lay pleasant. Id. Paradise Regained. Does Theseus burn? And must not she with out-stretched arms receive him? And with an equal ardour meet his vows? Smith. OUTSTRIP, v. a. According to Skinner, out and Germ. spritzen, to spout. To outgo; leave behind. If thou wilt out-strip death, go across the seas, And live with Richmond from the reach of hell. Shakspeare. Do not smile at me, that I boast her off; For thou shalt find, she will out-strip all praise, And make it halt behind her. Id. Tempest. Thou both their graces in thyself hast more Out-stript, than they did all that went before. Ben Jonson. Will out-strip hers; as bullets flown before With such array Harpalice bestrode A fox may be out-witted, and a hare out-stript. L'Estrange. He got the start of them in point of obedience, and thereby out-stript them at length in point of knowledge. South. OUT-SWEET'EN, v. a. Out and sweeten. To excel in sweetness. The leaf of eglantine, which not to slander, Out-sweetened not thy breath. Shakspeare. Cymbeline. OUT-SWEAR', v.a. Out and swear. To overpower by swearing. We shall have old swearing, But we'll out-face them, and out-swear them too. Shakspare. |