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English
Etymology
From out- + ray.
Pronunciation
Verb
outray (third-person singular simple present outrays, present participle outraying, simple past and past participle outrayed)
- (obsolete) To spread out in array.
, Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. , London: Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, , new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., , 1843, →OCLC:And now they outray to your fleet.
- (obsolete) To outshine.
c. 1505, John Skelton, Phyllyp Sparowe; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 74, lines 85–88:Cerberus doth barke,
Whom Theseus dyd affraye,
Whom Hercules dyd outraye,
As famous poetes say; […]
References
“outray”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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