outpleads

Verb

outplead (third-person singular simple present outpleads, present participle outpleading, simple past and past participle outpleaded)

1. (transitive) To surpass in pleading; to plead more successfully than.
   • There were some strokes in this speech which perhaps would have offended Mr Allworthy, had he strictly attended to it; but he had now got one of his fingers into the infant's hand, which, by its gentle pressure, seeming to implore his assistance, had certainly out-pleaded the eloquence of Mrs...1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling