outgo

Verb

outgo (third-person singular simple present outgoes, present participle outgoing, simple past outwent, past participle outgone)

1. (archaic, transitive) To go further than (someone or something); to exceed, to go beyond, to surpass.
   • So then it will alwayes bee found trew, that God outgoeth all our prayers, and all our wiſhes.1577, Iohn Calvin, “The .XXI. Sermon, which is the Sixth vppon the Third Chapter, and the First vppon the Fourth”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The Sermons of M. Iohn Calvin, vpon the Epistle of S....
   • Shepheards delights he dooth them all forſweare, / Hys pleaſaunt Pipe, whych made vs meriment, / He wylfully hath broke, and doth forbeare / His wonted ſongs, wherein he all outwent.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Aprill. Ægloga Quarta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 12, recto

   Synonyms:

   outdo

2. (obsolete, transitive) To experience, go through, or undergo (something).
   • So ſince the vvinged God his planet cleare, / began in me to moue, one yeare is ſpent: / the vvhich doth longer vnto me appeare, / then al thoſe fourty vvhich my life outvvent.1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC
3. (obsolete, transitive) To travel faster than (someone or something); to outstrip, to overtake.
   • So trauelling, he chaunſt far off to heed, / A Damzell, flying on a palfrey faſt / Before tvvo Knights, […] Yet fled ſhe faſt, and both them farre outvvent, / Carried vvith vvings of feare, like fovvle aghaſt, / VVith locks all looſe, and rayment all to rent; […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 282
   • VVhat, ſhall vve talk further vvith him? or out-go him at preſent? and ſo leave him to think of vvhat he hath heard already; and then ſtop again for him aftervvards, and ſee if by degrees vve can do any good of him?1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 164

   Synonyms:

   outdistance, outrun, pass

4. (intransitive, regional, archaic except poetic and UK) To go out, to set forth, to set out.
   • I ſawe a ſhole of ſhepheardes outgoe, / With ſinging, and ſhouting, and iolly chere: […]1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 16, verso
   • And in the middle sea they chanced to meet; / Up goes the trump; with shots and shouts they greet, / And hasten them to set on with the sun; / With grisly sound outgoeth the great gun, […]1845, James Russell Lowell, “First Conversation. Chaucer.”, in Conversations on Some of the Old Poets, Cambridge, Mass.: John Owen, →OCLC, page 99
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to overextend or overreach.
   • But John / (Our Friend) Molleſſon, / Thought us to have out-gone / VVith a quaint Invention.1668, John Denham, “On My Lord Croft’s and My Journey into Poland, from whence We Brought 10000 l. for His Majesty by the Decimation of His Scottish Subjects there”, in Poems and Translations, with...

Noun

UK/ˈaʊtɡəʊ/US/ˈaʊtˌɡoʊ/

outgo (countable and uncountable, plural outgos or outgoes)

1. (countable, archaic except India) A cost, expenditure, or outlay.
   • My farm outgoes for the first season were, for implements, seed, work, &c., $14 72½.1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Economy”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 60
   • The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo; as if, after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.1860, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Essay III. Wealth.”, in The Conduct of Life, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 101

   Synonyms:

   outgoing

   Antonyms:

   income, receipts, takings

2. (uncountable) The act or process of going out; (countable) an instance of this; an outgoing.
   • Once again, after establishing an equally obvious fact, I succeeded in wringing from her the reluctant admission, "It depends," but she was so shattered by the bulk and force of this outgo, so fearful that in some way she had imperiled her life or reputation, so anxious concerning the effect that...1898, Kate Douglas Wiggin, “Susanna Crum Couldna Say”, in Penelope’s Progress […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, part 1st (In Town), page 35
   • The stately Votaress, with her towering funnels lost in the upper night, was running well inshore under a point, wrapped in a world-wide silence broken only by the placid outgo of her own vast breath, the soft rush of her torrential footsteps far below, and the answering rustle of the nearer shore.1914, George W[ashington] Cable, “Questions”, in Gideon’s Band: A Tale of the Mississippi, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 37

   Synonyms:

   departure, efflux, exit, outflow

   Antonyms:

   arrival, entrance, incoming, inflow, ingoing, influx

3. (archaic, countable, obsolete) The means by which something flows or goes out; an outlet.
   • The great Salt Lake of Utah is its principal body of water, and this has no visible outgo, though richly fed from various quarters.1869, Samuel Bowles, “Introductory Chapter”, in Our New West. Records of Travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. […], Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Publishing Co. […], →OCLC, page 26
   • Of course the fact is not overlooked that the outgos of main drain traps are not usually ventilated against syphonage, but they afford an excellent example of a trap on a nearly horizontal pipe.1882 February 2, D. [pseudonym], “Syphonage in Practice”, in The Sanitary Engineer, volume 5, number 10, New York, N.Y.: […] E. P. Coby & Co., →OCLC, page 208, columns 2–3
4. (archaic, obsolete, rare, uncountable) A (quantity of a) substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.
   • It cannot be doubted that the same persons are here meant as are spoken of in the preceding chapter, for their scorn was the outgo of the same frivolous mind which is there said to distinguish them.1870, Friedrich Bleek, “The Petrine Epistles”, in William Urwick, transl., edited by Johannes Friedrich Bleek, An Introduction to the New Testament. […] (Clark’s Foreign Theological Library, Fourth...
   • In these experiments it is necessary to take account not only of the food eaten, but of the actual amount of this food which is used by the body. […] Estimates of the solids, liquids, and gases given off from his body must be obtained, for to carry out the experiment an exact balance must be made...1899, H[erbert] W[illiam] Conn, “Is the Body a Machine?”, in The Story of the Living Machine: A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism which Controls the Phenomena of...

   Synonyms:

   effluxion, issue, outcome