outcompassing

Verb

outcompass (third-person singular simple present outcompasses, present participle outcompassing, simple past and past participle outcompassed)

1. (dated, rare, transitive) To exceed the limits of; to surpass, transcend or go beyond.
   • "It is manifest that there is no danger at all in the proportion or quantity of knowledge, how large soever, lest it should make it swell or out-compass itself; no, but it is merely the quality of knowledge, which, be it in quantity more or less, if it be taken without the true corrective thereof...1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

   Synonyms:

   exceed, surpass, transcend