outleading

Verb (1)

outlead (third-person singular simple present outleads, present participle outleading, simple past and past participle outled)

1. (archaic) To lead out.
   • So he came down from his tower and called his knights. Lordings, —he said — to arms; the Emperour Divoun beleaguers us within our walls. Now let us make three sallies brave and sure. The first I will outlead myself.1870, Eustace Hinton Jones, The Romance of Sir Bevis of Hamtoun, page 57
2. To bring about; to encourage.
   • This is an Education which consists in the outleading of the blackguardizing, pauperizing, vagrant-like, and theftuous elements of the mentality, entirely withdrawn, and apart from any moral guidance, any elevating tendency, any ameliorating influence, nay, directly under the direction of the...1851, Philomathos, “Ought Government to Provide a Secular Education For the People?”, in The British Controversialist: And Literary Magazine, number 13, page 351

Verb (2)

outlead (third-person singular simple present outleads, present participle outleading, simple past and past participle outled)

1. (transitive) To exceed in leadership.
   • If anyone can outlead as leader, I hope he will outlead as leader, but my conversation was with those gentlemen who by their positions are entitled to participate in directing the affairs of the House.1914, United States. Congress, Congressional Record, page 8473
2. (transitive) To exceed in leading; to maintain a strong lead ahead of; to outcompete.
   • On, on, in never-ending race, Behind the billows vainly chase; Both wave and wind with all their speed The barge doth thrice in flight outlead.1887, John Dunbar Hylton, Arteloise, page 200

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