outrage 
Where the noise 
Of riot ascends Hlmve thuir loftiest towers, 
Anil injury, and <nttrn<jf. MUttm, V. [.., i. , r >00. 
Agrarian outrage. Sec agrarian. =8yn. 3. Inmll, In- 
iWinitii, etc. Sec '///,>.'. 
Outrage 1 (out'raj ), r. [< .\l K. <IH/</' ,< OK. /- 
rngi-r, niillniiii-r, P. oittrui/i-r = Sp. I't;. ullrnjnr 
= lt.iillr/ii/!/iiin,i>n\r;iiff, from the noun.] I. 
Iniiix. 1. To attack: do violence, especially ex- 
treme wrong or violence, to ; wrong heinously ; 
maltreat. 
Base and insolent minds outrage men when they have 
hopes of doing it without a return. Up. Atterliury. 
2. To assault violently or brutally; commit a 
barbarous attack upon ; especially, to violate ; 
ravish. 
All IK-. iv. ii- ! that doe tills hideous act behold, 
And heavenly virgin thus outraged see. 
Speiuer. V. Q., I. vL 6. 
An outru'jKfl maiden sprang into the hall, 
Crying on help. Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
3. To transgress shamefully ; infringe auda- 
ciously upon ; break through, violate, or offend 
against atrociously or flagrantly; act in utter 
or shameless disregard of the authority, obli- 
gation, or claims of. 
This interview outrages all decency ; she forgets her 
modesty, and betrays her virtue, by giving too long an 
audience. i:m,,n,,'. 
It Is perilous lor any government to outrage the public 
opinion. 
Macaulay, Conversation between Cowley and Milton. 
Wherever outraged Mature 
Asks word or action brave. 
WhMier, The Hero. 
= Syn. 1. See affront, n. 
ll.t iii trans. To be excessive; commit ex- 
cesses or extravagances; wanton; run riot; act 
without self-restraint- or outrageously. 
Three or four great ones in court will outrage in apparel, 
huge hose, monstrous hats, and garish colours. Atcham. 
Outrage 1 !, [< ME. outrage, outrage; from 
the verb.] 1. Unreasonable; violent; mad. 
' Alas ! \\lii haue y ben outrage, 
And serued the feend that was thi too? 
Political Poemt, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 175. 
2. Extraordinary ; unexampled ; unusual ; sur- 
prising; extravagant. 
An wttrage awenture of Arthurea wonderej. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 29. 
outrage 2 (out-raj'), v. t. [< out + rage."] To 
exceed in raging; rage beyond or more than. 
Young. 
OUtragelyt, adv. [< outrage 1 + -fy 2 .] Superflu- 
ously. Hampole. 
outragenesst, [ME. outeragenes; < outrage 1 , 
u., + -nest!.] Excess; extravagance. Cath. 
Any. 
outrageous (out-ra'jus), a. [< ME. outrageous, 
outragious, < OF. ontrageus, outraigeus, oultra- 
geus, F. outrageux (= Pr. oltratgos, oltrajos = 
Sp. Pg. ultrajoso = It. oltraggioso), < outrage, 
outrage: see outrage 1 .] If. Extravagant; ex- 
traordinary ; unusual. 
Eche man complayned of his losse and harme, that was 
right grete and outragiouee. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), lii. 647. 
There be .iiij. rowes or range of pylers thrughout ye 
church, of ye fynest marble yt may be, not onely meruay- 
lous for ye nombre, but for ye outragyoutt gretnes, length, 
and fayrenes therof. Sir R. Qvylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 86. 
2. Immoderate; excessive; unrestrained; vio- 
lent; furious. 
But though attempre weping be graunted, outraaeaiu 
weping certes is defended. Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus. 
The states of Christendom, 
Moved with remorse of these outrageous broils, 
Have earnestly implored a general peace 
Betwixt our nation and the aspiring French. 
Shalt., 1 Hen. VI., v. 4. 97. 
Immediate in a flame, 
But soon obscured with smoke, all heaven appear'd, 
From those deep-throated engines belch'd, whose roar 
Embowel'd with outrageous noise the air. 
Milton, P. L , vi. 687. 
His zeal for a good author is indeed outrageous, and 
breaks down every fence and partition, every board and 
plank, that stands within the expression of his applause. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 235. 
What makes you impatient of Sir Peter's temper, and 
outrageous at his suspicions? why, the consciousness of 
your innocence. Sheridan, School for Scandal, iv. 3. 
3. Atrocious ; flagrantly contrary to or regard- 
less of authority, law, order, morality, or de- 
cency. 
Think not, although in writing I preferr'd 
The manner of thy vile outrageows crimes, 
Th.it therefore I have forged. 
Shale.. 1 Hen. VI., UL 1. 11. 
Caught in a burst of unexpected storm, 
And pelted with outrageous epithets. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
=8ya. 2. Exorbitant, extravagant. -3. Wicked, Heinmix, 
etc. (ee atroevntJt), mad, frantic, villainous. 
4187 
outrageously (ut-ra'jun-li), adv. 1. To an 
i \i ninriliiiiiry or unexampled extent or degree ; 
excessively ; extravagantly ; unrestrainedly ; 
lience, violently; furiously; madly; irration- 
ally. 
For ther blforn he stal but curtelsly, 
But now he was a theef outrageously. 
Chaucer, Kecve's Tale, I. 78. 
And raundayall Day and all nyght it blew owtraaeovtty. 
Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travel!, p. f.u. 
There being nothing so extravagant and nutragemaly 
wilil which a mind once Infected with atheistical sottish- 
nesH ami disbelief will not rather greedily swallow down 
than admit a Deity. 
Cudu-orth, Intellectual System, p. 106. 
2. With shameless disregard of authority, or- 
der, morality, decency, ornumanity ; atrocious- 
ly; audaciously; flagrantly; barbarously. 
And sawe how outraaiouily they had slayne the bayly 
he thought the mater snulde be yuell at length. 
Berner*, tr. of Froissart's Chron., I. cccl. 
Lo, thy furioiu) foes now swell, 
And sturm outrayeoutly. Milton, Ft. Ixxxlli. 2. 
outrageousness (out-ra'jus-nes), w. The state 
or character of being outrageous. 
Outrager (out'ra-jer), n. One who outrages or 
violates ; a flagrant violator. 
An outrager of all laws and social duties. 
U. Spencer, Sociology, p. 208. 
outraiet, v. A variant of outray 1 . 
outrake (out'rak), . 1. An expedition or 
foray. 2. A free passage for sheep from in- 
closed pastures into open grounds or common 
lands. Brockett. [Scotch and North. Eng.] 
outrance (out'rans; F.pron. 6-trons'), . [For- 
merly also uttrdunce; < OF. outrance, oultrattce, 
F. outrance (= Pr. ultranza = It. oltranza), < 
outre, < L. ultra, beyond: see ultra. Cf. out- 
rage!.] The last extremity. It Is obsolete as an 
English word : bat it occurs as French In the phrase d 
I'outrance, to the extreme ; to the end ; especially, in ref- 
erence to a combat, until the complete defeat of one of 
the contestants ; hence, to the death : a term derived from 
the practice in justs and tournaments of breaking a flxed 
number of lances, striking a fixed number of sword-blows, 
and the like, from which custom the combat " imttrance 
was to be distinguished. 
By reason that on both parts they were so stiffely set to 
fight to the outrance. 
HoUatid, tr. of Ammlanus Marcellinus (1609). (Naret.) 
Let us fight at oltrance. 
Fragment of an Interlude (Child's Ballads, V. 429). 
outrange (out-ranj'), v. t. Naut., to outsail; 
sail ahead of; range by or past. 
outrank (out-rank^, v. t. To excel in rank or 
precedence ; be superior in rank to. 
OUtrayH (out-ra'), *' [< ME. outrayen, out- 
raien, ouitrayen, owterayen, owttrayen, appar. < 
OF. outrer, oultrer (pp. outre), go beyond, pass 
beyond, surpass, etc., < outre, beyond, < L. 
ultra, beyond: see ultra. Cf. outre and out- 
rage 1 , v.] I. intraiis. 1. To go beyond limits ; 
advance as in invasion or attack; spread out. 
All the time the great JSacides 
Was conversant in arms, your foes durst not a foot address 
Without their posts, so much they fear'd his lance that all 
control! 'd, 
And now they out-ray to your fleet 
Chapman, Iliad, T. 793. (Darin.) 
2. To pass beyond usual, established, or ra- 
tional limits ; hence, to be extravagant or mad. 
Thus his teching outrayet. York Playt, p. 323. 
Thin warne I vow, that ye nat sodeynly 
Out of yourself for no wo shoulde outraye. 
Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, L 587. 
II. trans. To go beyond; surpass; overcome; 
defeat. 
" What knyghte is yender," quod he, "canne ye me saye ? 
That in the feld outrayth euerychone." 
Generydet (E. K T. S.), 1. 2426. 
The cause why Demostenes so famously is brutid 
Onely procedld for that he did outray 
Machines. Skelton, Garland of Laurel, 1. 156. 
outray 2 (out-ra'), v. i. [< out + rayi.] To 
radiate forth ; flash out, as a ray. 
Therefore man's soul from God's own life outray'd. 
Dr. H. More, Psychathanasia, III. U. 22. 
outre (6-tra'), a. [F., pp. of outrer, go beyond, 
run through, < outre, beyond: see outray 1 .) 
Passing the bounds of what is usual and proper, 
or conventionally correct; extravagantly odd 
or peculiar; fantastically or preposterously ex- 
aggerated. 
Such outrf characters as militiamen themselves would 
Join in ridiculing. W. Cooke, Foote, I. 67. 
outreach (out-rech'), r. I. trans. 1. To reach 
or extend beyond. 
Man went to make an ambitious tower to outreach the 
clouds. Jtr. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 665. 
2. To cheat; overreach. 
outrigger 
I'll.' man 
Of cunning is mitreach'd; we must be safe. 
t\,r:l, iv, kill \\arbeck, iv. 4. 
II. in/ 1 a UK. To reach out; be extended or 
proffered. 
Lore outrcaching unto all God's creature*. 
Whittier, Remembrance of Joseph Sturge. 
outreason (out-re'zu), v. t. To excel or sur- 
pass in reasoning. 
Able to cope with the Jewish Sanhedrim, to baffle their 
profoundest Kabbies, and to outreaton the very Athenians. 
JMI -.i-iii.in- \ II u 
outreckon (out-rek'n), . t. To exceed in reck- 
oning or computation. 
A power that can preserve us after ashes, 
And make the names of men mi-reckon ages. 
hletcher, Valentinlan, i. 1. 
outrecuidancet ( F.pron. 6-tr-kwe-dons'),n. [F. 
(= It. oltracotanza, oltracu*tanzu),<. outre, be- 
yond^ OF. cuider = It. cuitare, think, < L. rttgi- 
tare, think: see cogitate.] Overweening pre- 
sumption ; arrogant or insulting conduct. 
Some think, my lord. It hath given you addition of pride 
and outrecitidancf. Chapman, Monsieur D'Ollve, iv. 1. 
It is a strange outrecuidana ; your humour too much 
redoundeth. D. Jonion, Cynthia's Revels, T. 2. 
outredden (out-red'n), c. f. To surpass in red- 
ness; be or grow redder than. Tennynon, Death 
of Wellington, viii. 
outredet, ' ' [ME., < out + rede 1 .] Same as 
atrede. 
outreign (out-ran'), r. t. To reign longer than; 
reign through the whole of (a period of time). 
Spenser, F. Q., II. x. 45. 
outrelyt, adr. An obsolete form of utterly. 
outremert (8-tr-mar'), . [F., ultramarine, < 
outre (< L. ultra), beyond, + tiier (< L. mare), 
sea. Cf. ultramarine.] Ultramarine blue. 
outrennet, c. An obsolete variant of outrun. 
outrick (out'rik), M. A rick or heap of hay or 
of corn in the open air. Pennant. 
outride (out-rid ), e. [< ME. outryden; < out + 
ride.] I. intrann. 1. To ride out. 2. To ride 
before or beside a carriage as attendant ; be an 
outrider. 
U. trans. To pass in riding ; ride faster than. 
My lord, Sir John Umfrevlle turn'd me back 
With Joyful tidings; and, being better horsed, 
am ,;/: me. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., I. 1. 36. 
For this advantage age from youth has won, 
As not to be outridden, though outrun. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., 111. 888. 
outride (out'rid), n. [< outride, v.] A riding 
out ; an excursion ; also, a place for riding. 
Your province is the town ; leave me a small out-ride in 
the country, and I shall be content. 
SomermUe, To Mr. Hogarth. 
outrider (out'ri'der), . [< ME. outrider; < 
outride + -er 1 .] One who rides out or forth. 
Specifically (at) A summoner whose office it was to cite 
men before the sheriff. (/><> A monk whose special duty It 
was to visit outlying or distant manors. 
Here pelure and palfrayes poure menne lyflode. 
And religious out-rydert reclused in here clolstres. 
Pien Plouman (C), v. 116. 
(c) A person on horseback, especially a sen-ant, who pre- 
cedes or accompanies a carriage. 
Then came the out-rider for the royal carriage, and then 
the Prince of Wales' carriage. 
T. C. Crawford, English Life, p. SO. 
(<tt) One who is in the habit of riding out for pleasure. 
A monk ther was, a fair for the maistrie, 
An out-rydere, that loved venerye |hnnting|. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., L 16fl. 
(c) A highwayman. [Prov. Eng.] 
I fear thou art some outrider, that lives by taking of 
purses here on Basset's Heath. 
Heytcood, 1 Edw. IV. (Works, ed. Pearson, L 43). 
outrigger (out'rig'er), n. 1. Naut. : (a) A spar 
rigged out from a ship's top or crosstrees, to 
spread the breast-backstays, (ft) Any boom 
rigged out from a ship's sid'e to hang boats by. 
(c) A heavy spar or strong beam of wood placed 
across a ship's deck, lashed securely to both 
sides of the ship, and having tackles from its pro- 
jecting ends to the masthead, to assist in secur- 
ing the mast while the ship is hove down, (d) 
Any spar thrust out to help to give a lead to a 
purchase or to extend a sail. 2. An iron bracket 
fixed to the outside of a boat and carrying a 
rowlock at its extremity, designed to increase 
the leverage of the oar. Hence 3. A light 
boat provided with such apparatus. 
Looking at the river, we find the introduction of the 
outrigger, a vessel which Leech represents as highly un- 
popular with short gentlemen requiring a "boat for an 
hour.' Fortnightly Ken., X. S.. XL. 54. 
4. A frame rigged out from the side of ca- 
noes in the- islamls of the Indixn and Pacific 
