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doing, he is guilty of murder, unlefs it happens in the 
endeavour to apprehend him ; for any perfon may arreft 
an outlaw, either of his own head, or by writ or warrant 
of capias utlagatum, in order to bring him to execution. 
But outlawries are frequently reverfed by writ of error, 
the proceeding therein being very nice and circumftan- 
tial; and, if any fingle minute point be omitted or mif- 
condufted, the whole outlawry is illegal, and may be re¬ 
verfed. Upon which reverfal, however, the party ac- 
cufed fhall be put to plead to the indictment, for that ftill 
remains good, and he may be tried at the King’s Bench 
bar; or the record may be remitted into the country, if 
it were removed into the King’s Bench by certiorari, with 
a command to the jultices below to proceed by the ftatute 
of 6 Hen. VI. c. i. So, if a man be outlawed by procefs 
in an information, and comes in and reverfes the outlawry, 
he muft plead inftanter to the information. The law is 
the fame in civil cafes ; and therefore, if an outlawry in 
a perfonal aftion be reverfed, the original remains. 
March 9. 3 Lev. 245. 
If, after outlawry in civil cafes, the defendant appears 
publicly, he may be arrefted by a writ of capias utlagatum, 
and committed till the outlawry be reverfed 5 which re¬ 
verfal may be had by the defendant’s appearing perfonally 
in court, (and in the King’s Bench without any perfonal 
appearance, fo that he appears by attorney, according to 
flat. 4 & 5 W. & M. c. 18.) and any plauiible caufe, how¬ 
ever flight, will in general be fufficient to reverfe it; it 
being confidered only as a procefs to compel appearance. 
But then the defendant mu ft pay full colts, and put the 
plaintiff in the fame condition as if he had appeared be¬ 
fore the writ of exigi facias was awarded. 
In Scotland , outlawry anciently took place in the cafe 
of refufal to fulfil a civil obligation, as well as in criminal 
cafes. At prefent, however, it only takes place in the two 
cafes of flying from a criminal profecution, and of appear¬ 
ing in court attended by too great a number of followers. 
But the defender, upon appearing at any diftance of time, 
and offering to (land trial, is entitled de jure to have the 
outlawry reverfed, and to be admitted to trial accordingly, 
and even to bail, if the offence be bailable. 
OUTLET,/ Paflage outwards; difcharge outwards; 
egrefs; paflage of egrefs.—Colonies, and foreign planta¬ 
tions, are very necelfary, as outlets to a populous nation. 
Bacon. 
So ’fcapes the infulting fire his narrow jail, 
And makes fmall outlets into open air. Dryden. 
OU'TLINE,Contour; line by which any figure is 
defined; extremity.'—Painters, by their outlines, colours, 
lights, and fhadows, reprefent the fame in their pi6tures. 
Dryden. 
OU'TMOST, adj. Remoteft from the middle.—The ge¬ 
nerality of men are readier to fetch a reafon from the im- 
xnenfe diftance of the ftarry heavens, and the outmojl walls 
of the world. Bentley. 
Chaos retir’d 
As from her outmojl works a broken foe. Milton. 
OU'TNESS, /! That relation of things by which one 
appears out of, or at a diftance from, another. Dr. Berke¬ 
ley, in his Eflay on Vifion, makes ufe of the word; and 
obferves, that we form no notion of outnefs from the 
fenfe of feeing merely, but only from motion.—Suppofing 
all mankind to have an irrefiftible conviftion of the outnefs 
and diftance of extenfion and figure, it is very eafy to ex- 
lain, from the affociation of ideas, and from our early 
abits of inattention to the phenomena of co.nfcioufnefs, 
how the fenfations of colour ffiould appear to the imagi¬ 
nation to be tranfported out of the mind. Dugald Stewart's 
Diff. Ei cy. Brit. Suppl. vol. i. 
OU'TRAGE, /! [French. At firft oultrage, both in 
old French and Englifh; ultragium, low Lat. from ultra, 
beyond. This word alfo had formerly the accent on ei¬ 
ther fyliable; it is now conftantly on the firft.] Open vio- 
O U T 
lence; tumultuous mifchief.—-He toke quarrell of his 
oultrage. Gower. —He wrought great outrages, wafting all 
the country where he went. Spenfer on Ireland. 
He doth himfelf in fecret fhrowd, 
To fly the vengeance for his outrage due. Spenfer. 
This word fee ms to be ufed by Philips for mere commo¬ 
tion, without any ill import, contrary to the univerfal ufe 
of writers : 
See with what outrage from the frofty north. 
The early valiant Swede draws forth his wings 
In battailous array. Philips. 
To OU'TRAGE, v. a. To injure violently or contu- 
melioufly; to infult roughly and tumultuouffy.—Bafe 
and infolent minds outrage men, when they have hope of 
doing it without a return. Atterbury. 
Ah heavens! that do this hideous a£t behold. 
And heavenly virgin thus outraged fee ; 
How can the vengeance juft fo long withhold ! Spenfer. 
To OU'TRAGE, v. n. To commit exorbitancies. Not 
in ufe. —Three or four great ones in court will outrage in 
apparel, huge hofe, monftrous hats, and garifh colours. 
Afchant. 
OUTRA'GIOUS, or Outrageous, adj. Violent; fu¬ 
rious; raging; exorbitant; tumultuous; turbulent.— 
Tyrannye is feygnorye vyolent and oultrageous. Caxton't 
Boke of Good Maners, i486.—Under him they committed 
divers the moft outragious villanies that a bale multitude 
can imagine. Sidney. 
As fhe went, her tongue did walk 
In foul reproach and terms of vile defpight. 
Provoking him by her outragious talk, 
To heap more vengeance on that wretched wight. Spenf. 
They view’d the vaft immeafurable abyfs, 
Outrageous as a fea, dark, wafteful, wild. Milton. 
Exceffive; palling reafon or decency.— The outragious 
decking of temples and churches with gold and filver. 
Homily againjl Idolatry. —My charafters of Antony and 
Cleopatra, though they are favourable to them, have no¬ 
thing of outragious panegyric. Dryden's Dufrefnoy .— ■ 
Enormous; atrocious: 
Think not, although in writing I prefer’d 
The manner of thy vile outragious crimes, 
That therefore I have forg’d. Shaltejpeare's Hen. VI. 
OUTRA'GIOUSLY, adv. Violently; tumultuouffy; 
furioufly.—In labour of her grief outrageoufly diftradt. 
Drayton's Polyolb. —Let luft burn never fo outragioujly 
for the prefent, yet age will in time chill thofe heats. 
South. —In am not one of thofe who think that the people 
are never in the w'rong: they have been fo, frequently 
and outrageoufly, both in other countries and in this. 
Burke on the CauJ'e of Difcontents. —Exceflively.—Difpende 
not too outrageoufly, nor be not too fcarce, fo that thou 
be not bounde to thy trefour. Have therin attempraunce 
and mefure, whiche in all thynges is prouftytable. Lord 
Rivers's DiSles and Sayings. 
OUTR A'GIOUSNESS, f Fury; violence.— Outrage- 
oufnej's is not enduryng. Ld. Rivers. —Virgil, more difcreet 
than Homer, has contented himfelf with the partiality of 
his deities, without bringing them to the outragioufnej’s of 
blows. Dryden. 
OU'TRAM (William), a learned Englifh divine, was 
a native of Derbyfhire, and born in the year 1625. He 
was entered of Trinity-college, Cambridge, where he 
took his degree of B. A. and of which he obtained a fel- 
lowfhip : he afterwards removed to Chrift’s-college, where 
he likewife obtained a fellowfliip. In 1649 he took his 
degree of M. A. and in 1660 that of D.D. He was pre¬ 
fen ted to the reftory of St. Mary Woolnoth in London ; 
afterwards, in 1669, he was collated to the archdeaconry 
of Leicefter; and in the following year he was inftalled 
prebendary of St. Peter’s church in Weftminfter, and 
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