outlooking

Verb

outlook (third-person singular simple present outlooks, present participle outlooking, simple past and past participle outlooked)

1. (archaic, intransitive, literary) To face or look in an outward direction.
   • This old man with the ſythe, olde father Tyme they call, / And hir his daughter Trueth, which holdeth yonder Booke, / Whome he out of his rocke hath brought forth to vs all, / From whence this many yeares ſhe durſt not once out looke.1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “Queene Elizabeth”, in The Laste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume II, London: […] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, page 1792, column 1

   Synonyms:

   look out

2. (archaic, transitive) To look at (someone) so long or intently that they look away; to win or prevail over (someone or something).
   • [...] I drew this gallant head of war,
     And cull’d these fiery spirits from the world,
     To outlook conquest and to win renown
     Even in the jaws of danger and of death.c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

   Synonyms:

   outstare, face down, browbeat, overcome

3. (obsolete, transitive) To be more attractive than (someone or something).
   • Nobody’s equipage outlooked ours except my Lord Lieutenant’s, but in every respect I must say Mrs. Clayton outshines her neighbours …1731, Mary Delany, letter dated 4 October, 1731, in George Paston (ed.), Mrs. Delany (Mary Granville): A Memoir, 1700-1788, London: Grant Richards, 1900, p. 64
4. (obsolete, transitive) To inspect throughly; to select.
   • Away to the Brook,
     All your Tackle out look,
     Here’s a day that is worth a year’s wishing;
     See that all things be right,
     For ’tis a very spight
     To want tools when a man goes a fishing.1689, Charles Cotton, “The Angler’s Ballad” in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bassett et al., p. 76
5. (obsolete, transitive) To look beyond (something).
   • [...] to fit minds to so even a temper, that both should round the same circle, and never out-look the Horizon of their reciprocal Interest, is a work altogether impossible.1680, John Yalden, Compendium Politicum, or, The Distempers of Government, London: Robert Clavel, page 54

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