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English
Etymology
out- + rive
Verb
outrive (third-person singular simple present outrives, present participle outriving, simple past outrove, past participle outriven)
- (obsolete) To rive; to sever.
1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Third Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. , London: Ar Hatfield, for I Iaggard and M Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 27, page 44:The cou’nants be (he said) that thou vnfold / This wretched boſome, and my hart out riue, [...]
1599, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum. The three laſt Bookes. Of byting Satyres., Lib. 4, Sat. 1,, page 3, line 11:[...] Should all in rage the Curſe-beat Page out-riue, [...]
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